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As the head of the solid waste bureau in
Baltimore, Valentina Ukwuoma is getting
daily calls from other communities wanting
to learn more about single-stream recycling,
where all recyclables are mixed together in
one collection container.
Baltimore, which started single-stream
collection in January, is only one on a growing
list of municipalities across the country to
launch single-stream recycling.
“Single-stream is working better than
most expected” in Baltimore, Ukwuoma says,
noting that the tons recycled by the city have
increased by 20 percent.
“The simplicity of single-stream
recycling encourages more people to participate,
increasing volumes, which increases
the amount of material diverted from landfills.”
Before single-stream recycling was
introduced, residents in Baltimore had to separate
their paper and cardboard from their
bottles and cans. The city had two different
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September 2008
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Plastic bag
fee set for
Seattle
Seattle City Council passed
an ordinance that will charge
shoppers a fee on disposable
plastic and paper shopping
bags. A separate ordinance was
also passed that bans expanded
polystyrene food containers.
This new ordinance makes Seattle
the first city in the nation to
encourage its residents to curtail
the use of disposable bags and
instead utilize reusable options
by imposing a fee on disposable
shopping bags.
One part of the package
creates a fee of $0.20 for disposable
shopping bags provided
at convenience, drug, and grocery
store cash registers, beginning
on January 1, 2009.
Seattle Public Utilities estimates
360 million disposable
bags are used in the city every
year. The proposal focuses on
these stores because they are the
source of more than 70 percent
of all disposable shopping
bags distributed. The fee applies
to both paper and plastic and is
expected to reduce the use of
disposable bags by more than
50 percent, or at least 184 million
bags annually.
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Cities weigh advantages against disadvantages
by Brian R. Hook
Recycling at the Ohio State Fair expanded
this year with the ‘Waste-Less’ concept.
This year’s ‘Taste of Ohio’ building was
designed to eliminate most trash from the various
food vendors.
Patrons of the ‘Taste’ cafe were served
meals with biodegradable plates, utensils and
cups. When finished, there were three bins for
clean up. The blue bins were for bottles and
cans, the green bins handled food scraps and
the biodegradable service ware, while the
brown bins were for the remaining trash.
SWACO, the Ohio Department of Natural
Resources (ODNR) and The Ohio State Fair
partnered on the ‘Waste-Less’ program. “This
pilot program is designed to show people just
how much waste we create,” says SWACO
executive director Ron Mills. “When we make
a little extra effort we can substantially cut the
amount we throw away.”
The pilot ‘Waste-Less’ program was part of
the ongoing effort to expand recycling at the
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Senate rejects tax on California
grocery bags. Page A7
Recycling farm waste materials: from
dead animals to scrap metal. Page A11
Seattle stands strong on recycling.
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California deals with increased
recycling thefts. Page A21
Republic Services to merge with
Allied Waste. Page B1
Alternative fuels to power Anheuser-
Busch breweries. Page B3
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A collection truck from Tidewater Fibre Corporation gathers single-stream recyclables at
the curb of residences within their route.
Ohio State Fair cuts down on waste
Ohio Expo Center and State Fair. Another part
of a $100,000 ODOR grant was the addition of
new recycling containers. Approximately 600
blue bins were located near trash containers in
high traffic areas on the Fairgrounds.
This is the second year that the ‘Taste of
Ohio’ cafe has composted the food waste. In
2007, more than 4,000 pounds of leftovers were
collected for reuse. The Fair also recycles grass
clippings from its facilities, amounting to acres
of clippings used for compost, mulch and soil
additives.
Concrete runways
are transformed
into office walls
Arvada-based ReCrete Materials,
Inc. got the runways from the former
Stapleton International Airport to
stand on end.
In a unique effort, Etkin Johnson
Group, general contractor Murray and
Stafford, Inc., concrete contractor
CAL Construction, Inc. and Forest
City Development are using ReCrete’s
ready-mix concrete made from the
former airport’s recycled runways to
create the tilt-up panels (outer walls)
for their office and industrial development,
Enterprise Park at Stapleton.
According to the Tilt-Up Concrete
Association, the 3.1 million
pounds of recycled concrete used on
this project is the largest use of
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American Recycler, September 2008
Miami-Dade County
to begin utilizing
single-stream system
Waste Management, Inc. and its
wholly owned subsidiary, WM Recycle
America (WMRA), announced a partnership
with Miami-Dade County to launch
one of the nation’s largest residential single-stream
recycling programs.
Located in Pembroke Pines, Florida,
the 100,000 sq. ft. facility has the capacity
to process up to 1,000 tons of recyclables
per day and is the largest and most
advanced single-stream recycling operation
in the nation. It is also only one of two
in the state and the first of its kind in the
South Florida area.
The facility employs advanced recycling
technology including magnets,
screens and optical scanners to automate
the sorting of recyclables.
The efficiency of the single-stream
process can improve local recycling programs
by increasing capacity, resulting in
an average recovery of up to 30 percent
more recyclable materials, while maintaining
material quality equal to if not better
than traditional recycling processes.
“The single-stream recycling process
makes it much easier for our residents to
recycle,” said Miami-Dade County
Department of Solid Waste Management
director Kathleen Woods-Richardson.
“With more than 340,000 households, the
new Miami-Dade recycling program can
make a tremendous positive impact on our
environment.”
Waste Management operates 31 single-stream
recycling facilities across the
country and an additional 4 to 5 will begin
construction or open this year.
Perham Resource
Recovery fined
United States Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Region 5 has reached
an agreement with Perham Resource
Recovery Facility, a municipal waste combustor
in Perham, Minnesota, on alleged
clean-air violations.
The agreement, which includes a
$15,950 penalty and a $110,760 environmental
project, resolves EPA allegations
that the facility exceeded emission standards
for hydrogen chloride and mercury.
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Collaborating with the Natural
Resources Defense Council and Sims
Metal Management, Major League
Baseball (MLB) recently sent more than
a hundred Green Team volunteers
through Central Park. The volunteers
collected approximately 150,000 plastic
bottles and aluminum cans for recycling
at the MLB All-Star Concert presented
by Bank of America, starring Bon Jovi,
in Central Park. In addition to the Green
Teams, Aquafina provided bottle recycling
bins and staff to encourage fans to
be green.
Major League Baseball has been
collaborating for more than two years
with the Natural Resources Defense
Council on the greening of professional
baseball at both the League level and in
collaboration with individual teams.
“MLB broke new ground tonight
and set the standard for how to manage
recycling at a major event,” said Allen
Hershkowitz, senior scientist at NRDC.
“Wherever you went, there was a conveniently
located, well-marked recycling
bin laid out by Sims Metal Management
or Aquafina. When fans were at their
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solid waste management and recycling
infrastructure. The initiative aims to deliver
this information, and a model for projecting
future needs through a new, interactive
web-based information system, to
be added to CIWMB’s expansive website.
“This is the first data gathering, management
and modeling project of its size,”
says Ed Boisson, project manager at R. W.
Beck.
Boisson believes the tool can help
CIWMB and local governments evaluate
current and future needs for recycling processing
facilities, composting sites and
other waste reduction infrastructure. Private
sector firms could utilize the tool to
investigate market opportunities.
spot on the great lawn, hundreds of
friendly and easily identifiable volunteers
were circulating with recycling
bags to collect containers.”
The greening of the MLB All-Star
Concert followed an event earlier in the
The infrastructure inventory and
information framework will also facilitate
consideration of regional initiatives by
mapping existing solid waste and recycling
facilities and projecting regional
waste generation and infrastructure needs.
As it gathers and manages data, R. W.
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Major League Baseball
teams up to recycle
Approximately 150,000 containers were collected for recycling in New York City.
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by utilizing 22,000 recycled
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Striking back at recycling
thieves in New York City
by Irwin Rapoport
Thieves stealing recyclables in New
York City (NYC) are concentrating their
efforts on the theft of metal and paper in
the residential and commercial sectors.
However, the City’s Department of
Sanitation’s police force is fighting back
and has been armed with some powerful
legislation in the form of stiff fines and the
ability to seize vehicles used by criminals.
In June, the police impounded 28
vehicles involved in the theft of recyclables
in all five boroughs, including 12
in Brooklyn, 7 in Manhattan, 5 in the
Bronx and 4 in Queens.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in October
2007, signed Local Law No. 50.
Among its provisions, the Law
imposed stiff sanctions against persons
operating a motor vehicle who unlawfully
remove or transport recyclables placed at
residential or commercial curbsides, and
from premises occupied by city agencies
and institutions that receive Department
collection service.
Civil fines were increased from $100
to $2,000 for a first time offender and
$5,000 for second and repeat offenders
within a twelve-month period.
The Department of Sanitation’s New
York (DSNY) police force, composed of
uniformed and plainclothes police officers
(about 80 personnel), patrol areas where
large amounts of curbside recyclables are
being removed unlawfully.
Runways
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recycled concrete in a tilt-up application
ever. “The current perception that recycled
products may only be used for
lower-end uses is obsolete,” ReCrete
president Jason Buesing states.
The developer, Etkin Johnson
Group, plans to seek LEED certification
for this project which includes three
buildings with 441,000 square feet of
office and industrial space within the
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For its residential recyclables collection,
the DSNY employs its own trucks
and uniformed personnel. Private companies
handle the commercial and institutional
sectors. However, all recyclables
end up in private transfer stations for processing.
“The thefts are pretty prevalent,” says
Inspector Robert D’Angelo, Enforcement.
“We can keep track of how many recyclables
are missing – each district does
that.”
D’Angelo noted that many of the
thieves come from North Carolina and
Pennsylvania, based on the information
from seized vehicles.
While thefts have been a problem in
the past, the rising value of recyclables has
led to thefts increasing over the past few
years, especially as scrap metal prices and
demand for them continue to remain high.
The thefts affect the city’s contracts
with private contractors.
“We are required, based on projected
volume,” says Matthew Lipani, the
DSNY’s Assistant Director, Public Information
office, “to send a certain amount of
tonnage to these companies.”
Paper thefts appear to be organized,
based on arrests. “They seem to be connected
to the same people,” says D’Angelo.
“We get family members – brothers,
cousins and people with similar names.
Since October 2007, we recovered 54,000
pounds of paper.”
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Stapleton Redevelopment. Energy efficient,
green building design will be
incorporated throughout. The decision to
use recycled concrete for the project was
based on several factors. “The material
was readily available at nominal additional
costs, it meets our quality standards
and using it has positive environmental
impacts,” comments Jim Vasbinder,
vice president of development
for Etkin Johnson Group.
ReCrete Materials, Inc. is on the
cutting edge of utilizing recycled concrete
in new, ready-mix applications.
Seattle fee
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The clear plastic bags used for individual
items such as fruits, vegetables,
and bulk items will not be subject to the
fee.
In response to citizen concerns, the
Council amended the legislation to
direct Seattle Public Utilities to help
seniors and low-income households by
distributing free reusable bags and working
with food banks, people using food
stamps, and shoppers receiving other
forms of direct assistance.
The bag fee legislation helps businesses
defray the cost of administering
the program by allowing larger retailers
to keep $0.05 of every bag to cover
administrative costs. Small businesses,
those grossing less than $1 million annually,
will be allowed to keep the entire
$0.20 fee.
Some of the funds generated will be
used to offset a portion of the needed
solid waste rate increase associated with
new garbage contracts. Part of the funds
collected will also go to support Seattle
Public Utilities’ waste prevention and
recycling programs.
Another part of the new proposal
will ban expanded polystyrene food containers
from restaurants and packaging
from grocery stores, beginning January
1, 2009. In July of 2010, foam trays for
raw meat and seafood will also be
banned and replaced with compostable
alternatives.
Projects to date have been private, public,
industrial and commercial with a
client list that includes the City and
County of Denver, the City of Thornton,
the City of Arvada, the Town of Golden
and numerous local residential and construction
firms. Utilizing concrete debris
from Denver’s former airport, as well as
from various local demolition projects,
conserves natural resources, reduces the
volume of concrete in landfills and
reduces the carbon footprint for ReCrete
and their clients.
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American Recycler, September 2008
Single-stream recycling
debated by association
This summer, the Northeast
Resource Recovery Association (NRRA)
met with its member cities, towns and
businesses to discuss single-stream recycling.
The open forum included over 85
members with 38 communities represented
and was meant to help members
evaluate whether this program would be
beneficial to their communities or businesses.
The single-stream recycling concept
has been around for many years but is
just starting to be considered in New
Hampshire. Single-stream recycling
allows residents to put all recyclables in
one bin where it is then transported to a
facility to be sorted. This program
increases the recycling rate but also limits
the income that communities receive
for their commodities. Some singlestream
recycling programs have estimated
that they pay between $10 and $15 a
ton for mixed recyclables delivered to the
single-stream facility. Currently, Goffstown,
New Hampshire is successfully
running a curbside single-stream program.
Dave Kirsch, member of NRRA’s
board of trustees and recycling manager
in Swanzey, New Hampshire, shared his
cost analysis of how single-stream recycling
would affect his program. While
the single-stream program would cut the
town’s operating costs by $30,200, overall
the program would cost the town
$19,100, partly in lost revenue from not
selling the recyclables at a higher price.
In addition to current single-stream
recycling programs, NRRA also offers
several other options that may work for
members, including a Consolidation Program
and a Dual-Stream Recycling Program.
The Consolidation Program bundles
small quantities of processed recyclables
from multiple municipalities to
bring the goods to one central location.
This reduces storage requirements for
members and obtains maximum revenue
by shipping the largest loads possible.
NRRA has successfully completed
five pilot consolidation runs of OCC
(cardboard), aluminum cans and steel
cans. Twenty-five different communities
participated and helped NRRA refine the
program to better serve each municipality.
This allowed NRRA members to capture
high market pricing, as well as
achieve full and heavier loads. For example,
members who participated recently
received $.18 more per pound for aluminum
cans and $130 a gross ton more
for steel cans by consolidation.
The Dual-Stream Recycling Program
is an alternative avenue as well.
NRRA has offered this program since
2004 and residents sort the recyclables
into two bins: paper (cardboard, mixed
paper, newspaper and junk mail) in one
bin and commingled containers (plastics
#1 - #7, aluminum and steel cans, jars
and bottles) in the other bin. Thirty-eight
members currently use this dual-stream
program and many achieve tandem hauls
on a regular basis. This program brings
revenue to members based on weights
and markets.
NRRA member pricing for July
2008 was between $75 and $80 a ton for
paper and between $37 and $20 a ton for
commingled containers.
Settlement reached on Summit,
Illinois, hazardous waste cleanup
The United States Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 and
the United States Department of Justice
announced a $2,055,373 settlement for
cleanup costs at the former IWI site, located
in Summit, Illinois. A group of 23 companies
will reimburse the government for
cleanup work completed in October 2003.
The late Glenn Wellman operated
four companies at the 1.7-acre site from
the late 1960s until the late 1990s. The
businesses manufactured, cleaned and
repaired stainless steel totes designed to
store up to 600 gallons of liquid - typically
flammable or corrosive materials such as
adhesives, inks, oil and paint. The property
was abandoned in 1999.
A nine-month cleanup effort by a
Chicago-based, EPA Superfund team
resulted in the safe disposal of 683 tons of
contaminated soil, 568 tons of hazardous
sludges, 568 drums and 52,300 gallons of
hazardous liquids from a railroad tank car,
sumps and totes at the site. The remaining
structures on the property were razed.
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Pennsylvania Governor Edward G.
Rendell announced an investment of $5
million to help more than 320 municipalities
continue and expand local recycling
programs that are creating new
revenue streams in the face of higher
energy costs.
“Record-high fuel and energy costs
are challenging local governments, businesses
and families all across our state,”
said Governor Rendell. “These grants
will help local communities defray those
higher costs while continuing to expand
their recycling collections, and in some
cases earn increased revenues from these
valuable commodities.
The high costs of energy and fuel
are straining budgets for many recycling
programs, but some communities are
finding opportunities to offset costs and
increase revenues by expanding recycling
collections.
With the price of petroleum near
record highs, commodity markets for
recyclable paper and plastics are
expanding because prices for recovered
materials are increasingly attractive
compared to virgin materials. Communities
that contract to sell the recyclable
materials they collect benefit by increasing
revenues and avoiding the costs to
dispose of the materials.
Pennsylvania is home to more than
3,200 recycling and reuse businesses and
organizations that generate more than
$18 billion in gross annual sales and
provide paychecks totaling $2.9 billion
to more than 81,000 employees. Addi-
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Recycling investments provide
$5 million to 323 communities
Pennsylvania continues to support recycling initiatives
tionally, these businesses add more than
$305 million in taxes to the state treasury.
Pennsylvanians divert five million
tons of recyclables from municipal
waste each year, which benefits the commonwealth
by:
Saving more than 95 trillion BTU
of energy, or an amount equivalent to the
output of three large coal-fired power
plants;
Saving consumers and industries
more than $250 million in disposal costs
and providing businesses with $550 million
worth of materials;
Reduce carbon dioxide emissions
by an equivalent of more than 2.5 million
metric tons, which is like offsetting
the emissions from 1.7 million cars and
light trucks.
Recycling performance grants
reward communities based on the
amount of recyclable materials collected.
Larger collection amounts mean
larger grants for the recycling programs
- and more materials for manufacturers.
The grants awarded reflect 2006
collections numbers.
DEP has approved 323 of the 779
performance grant applications received
for calendar year 2006 recycling. The
remaining applications are being
reviewed and additional grant awards
may be announced in the coming
months.
For more information, visit
www.depweb.state.pa.us, keyword:
Recycling Grants.

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Single-stream
Continued from Page 1
collection days for recyclables, one for
mixed paper and another for bottles and
cans.
More municipalities, like Baltimore,
are choosing single-stream over dualstream
recycling, which requires sorting
of recyclable materials before collection,
because single-stream not only increases
recycling rates, it also reduces costs, says
Jeremy O’Brien, director of applied
research at the Solid Waste Association of
North America.
“Conversion to single-stream allows
the reduction of collection frequency,
which can substantially reduce fuel
usage” for the haulers O’Brien says,
adding that the number of single-stream
facilities has increased across the country
from five in 1995 to 160 in 2006, with
more than one municipality, generally,
using each single-stream facility.
There are drawbacks to single-stream
recycling. Using one collection truck to
pick up all the recycled material has the
potential to contaminate the waste stream.
One of the most frequently cited examples
is recycled glass contaminating recycled
paper.
The quantity of the material remaining
after the single-stream process,
referred to as residuals, averages 7 to 10
percent, while residuals from the dualstream
method averages around 2 to 5
percent, says LaTisha Petteway, a
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spokesperson with the United States
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
in Washington, D.C.
But single-stream recycling often
increases the recycled pounds-perhousehold,
Petteway says, outweighing
potential drawbacks. Petteway cites recycling
rates in Denver, where a singlestream
program introduced in 2005 yielded
a 21 percent increase.
The environmental agency does not
track the number of cities currently using
single-stream recycling versus dualstream
recycling, but Petteway says anecdotal
evidence indicates that the singlestream
method is increasing in popularity.
Major metropolitan cities that have
already started single-stream collection,
or are planning to launch single-stream
programs, include Chicago, Dallas, and
Denver.
Philadelphia plans to expand its single-stream
collection to once a week after
introducing bi-weekly collection citywide
in 2006. Since then, recycling has
increased more than 35 percent, says
Clarena Tolson, streets commissioner in
Philadelphia.
The city collected 50,000 tons of
recyclable material in 2007, the highest
quantity collected in the history of the
city’s recycling program and Philadelphia
earned more than $1.9 million from the
recyclable materials, achieving another
record for the city.
“Single-stream recycling is a winwin
situation,” Tolson says.
Philadelphia began collecting plastics
and cardboard when it started single-
stream recycling. Under the former system,
the city did not collect plastics or
cardboard because it was too inefficient,
Tolson says. “Plastics and cardboard
would fill the trucks quickly, causing
numerous trips to the processing facility”
and increasing collection costs.
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Philadelphia has distributed postcards to
its residents to educate them about the
city's single-stream program.
The only drawback of single-stream
recycling for Philadelphia is higher contamination
rates, lowering the amount of
revenue earned for the recycled material,
Tolson says. Glass particles and other
debris often get mixed in with the paper.
“This increases the costs to process
and decreases the revenue to the city,”
Tolson says, adding that the city is able to
make up for the loss with increased tonnage.
Across the country in Los Angeles,
single-stream recycling is nothing new.
The city completed its rollout of singlestream
in 1998. It has increased recycling
by more than 50 percent, says Karen
Coca, assistant division manager of the
city’s sanitation bureau. The city also
achieved a 25 percent reduction in collection
staffing.
Los Angeles is now in the process of
expanding single-stream service to the
Los Angeles Unified School District and
to all multi-family buildings across the
city.
It is not just big metropolitan areas
like Los Angeles that have embraced single-stream
recycling. Redding, California,
with a population of approximately
84,600, is an example of a smaller city in
the Golden State that provides singlestream
collection.
Gret Horisk, public works supervisor
for the city, says Redding tried three different
curbside programs before eventually
switching to single-stream recycling.
“Single-stream works the best and is
the most cost effective,” Horisk says.
“Sorting at the curb was time consuming,”
requiring manual labor, leading to
more worker compensation claims,
Horisk says. Single-stream collection is
automated.
Out of 415 cities and counties that
report to the California Integrated Waste
Management Board, the state agency designated
to oversee the state’s waste, 392
have some kind of curbside program, says
Kyle Pogue, a manager in Sacramento.
While the agency does not keep track
of the number of single-stream versus dualstream
programs, Pogue says single-stream
collection is increasing in California.
“There has been a fairly significant
trend toward single-stream,” Pogue says.
Pogue says cities and counties are
turning to single-stream recycling
because it is more popular with residents
who no longer need to separate their recyclables.
Pogue says recycling rates after
switching increase anywhere from 50 to
100 percent.
Single-stream recycling also expands
the acceptable material that is collected,
says Steve SoRelle, another manager with
the state agency. “Now there are more
mixed papers and different plastics
allowed. It makes it easier on people,”
SoRelle says.
Before switching to single-stream
recycling, however, municipalities need to
have an understanding of what the community’s
processing options are, says
Scott Pasternak, a consultant with R.W.
Beck, Inc. in Austin. While some cities
process the material with city-owned
facilities, others contract out the process
to single-stream facilities.
Not every municipality has the needed
equipment for single-stream recycling.
“Therein lies a disadvantage of singlestream
recycling,” Pasternak says. “Cities
need to have more sophisticated equipment,
often meaning more expensive
equipment.”
An eagle was sitting on a tree resting,
doing nothing.
A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked
him, “Can I also sit like you and do nothing?”
The eagle answered, “Sure, why not?”
So, the rabbit sat on the ground below
the eagle and rested. All of a sudden, a
fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and
ate it.
Moral of the story: To be sitting and
doing nothing, you must be sitting very,
very high up.

American Recycler, September 2008
Senate rejects tax on
California grocery bags
A bill which would have placed a
twenty-five cent tax on every plastic bag
provided by a grocery store in California
failed to pass the Senate Appropriations
Committee. The Progressive Bag Affiliates
of the American Chemistry Council
(PBA) and many statewide consumer
groups opposed AB 2058 because it
would have imposed a $4.75 billion tax
on grocery shoppers.
The proposed twenty-five-cent perbag
tax could have added upwards of
$400 a year to the average family’s grocery
bill. Many of California’s families
are already struggling with rapidly rising
food and energy prices, and this tax
would have inevitably hurt the people
who can least afford it, especially those
shoppers who walk or take public transportation
to the grocery store.
“There are better ways to protect
the environment and reduce litter without
punishing consumers, including further
expansion of efforts to recycle,
reduce and reuse plastic bags. Some
programs are already underway, including
one created by AB 2449, a law that
went into effect last year and mandates
A famous football coach was on vacation
with his family. When they walked
into a movie theater and sat down, the
handful of people there applauded. He
thought to himself, "I can't believe it.
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plastic bag recycling at larger grocery
stores and certain retailers throughout
the state,” said Shari Jackson, Director
of the PBA
Jackson noted that plastic bags are
fully recyclable, and that plastic bag
recycling is on the rise, with 812 million
pounds of plastic bags and film recycled
nationally in 2006 - up 24 percent in a
single year. Results from California’s
new recycling efforts are just starting to
come in, and PBA believes these programs
should be given a chance to succeed
before additional tax burdens are
piled on California consumers.
The following items can be included
wherever plastic bags are collected
for recycling:
Plastic grocery and retail bags;
Plastic newspaper bags;
Dry cleaning bags (remove paper
and hangers);
Bread bags;
Plastic wrap from products like
paper towels and toilet paper; and
All bags labeled with recycling
codes #2 (HDPE) or #4 (LLDPE).
People recognize me all the way up
here."
Then a man came over and said,
"Thanks! The movie won’t run unless we
have ten paying people or more."
Two-year project
on plug-in hybrid
technology created
The United States Advanced Battery
Consortium (USABC), with funding from
the U.S. Department of Energy, has awarded
Johnson Controls-Saft a contract valued
at $8.2 million. The contract will focus on
the development of lithium-ion battery
systems for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
(PHEVs) and over the course of two
years will seek to validate the commercial
feasibility of lithium-ion technology for
mass market PHEVs.
“We are working on the development
of the complete PHEV system, which
includes high energy capacity cells, battery
management electronics, control software
and an efficient thermal management
system, all optimally packaged for safety
and efficient integration into the vehicle,”
said Mary Ann Wright, who leads the
Johnson Controls-Saft joint venture and is
vice president and general manager for
Johnson Controls hybrid battery business.
“Specifically, key goals for this
PHEV contract are to optimize cell and
battery system design for 10-mile and 40mile
electric range vehicles.”
USABC, whose members are
Chrysler LLC, Ford Motor Company and
General Motors Corporation, awarded
Johnson Controls-Saft a similar contract in
2006 focused on lithium-ion battery systems
for hybrid electric vehicles.
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Section A Page 8 American Recycler, September 2008
Superfund cleanups not
worth the cost, according
to new MIT study
The cost of the federal Superfund
program isn't bringing financial returns
to homeowners living near the cleanedup
toxic sites, according to new research
by Michael Greenstone, the 3M Professor
of Environmental Economics at MIT.
In a paper published in the August issue
of the Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Greenstone and a colleague analyzed
housing markets affected by Superfund,
a federal government program that
cleans up the largest and most dangerous
hazardous waste sites in the United
States. Greenstone compared the housing
prices of homes surrounding Superfund
sites to those surrounding sites that
narrowly missed qualifying for Superfund
remediation.
Since Superfund's inception in
1980, almost 1,600 sites have been identified
and made eligible for federally
funded cleanups. Cleanup activities have
been concluded at approximately twothirds
of these sites at an average cost of
more than $43 million. The expected
cost to clean up the remaining sites is an
additional $30 billion.
Greenstone found that the expensive
cleanups failed to increase house prices
or rental rates near Superfund sites in
comparison with neighborhoods surrounding
toxic sites where Superfund
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cleanups did not take place. In addition,
the population of the neighborhoods and
rate of new home construction remained
at pre-cleanup levels.
The paper also notes that the average
cleanup takes 12-13 years to complete.
“The lengthy interventions are disruptive
and very expensive,” Greenstone
said. “The housing market's clear message
is that the cleanups are not worth it
to the people living near these sites.”
Greenstone is now investigating
whether there are health benefits from
these cleanups, as his preliminary results
failed to find reductions in the rates of
infant mortality and birth defects or
increases in birth weight.
“We are facing a wide range of
environmental problems, including the
severe threats to our well-being posed by
climate change and water and air pollution,”
Greenstone said. “In this time of
limited budgets, society should focus its
resources on solving problems that
improve people’s lives.”
This work was funded in part by the
Center for Energy and Environmental
Policy Research at MIT. Greenstone's
co-author, Justin Gallagher, is a graduate
student at UC Berkeley.
—Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stolen recyclables
Continued from Page 4
The theft of metal appears to be the
acts of individuals. Among stoves and
other household appliances, refrigerators
and air-conditioners are hot items. Prior to
collection of refrigerators and air-conditioners,
residents are asked to place these
items on the curb. The next step has
DSNY personnel from its CFC removal
unit remove the CFCs to meet environmental
standards. This is a free service and
when the CFCs are removed, a tag is
placed on the item that allows recycling
collection staff to take them, along with
other metal items.
“Our problem is the release of Freon
into the air,” says D’Angelo. “It causes an
environmental problem and a manpower
problem in terms of the people we send to
remove the CFCs and to collect the appliances.
Forty-eight percent of our 311 pickup
notifications for refrigerators and airconditioners
are missing when our units go
out to pick them up.”
The thieves, in box trucks and vans,
patrol the streets and quickly grab the
paper and appliances.
“The paper goes phenomenally fast –
you have to see it,” says D’Angelo. “The
metal is a little slower because it is a little
harder, heavier and dangerous in the loading.
They can chuck an air-conditioner or
refrigerator in 1.5 minutes.”
The arrests are having an effect as
word-of-mouth is spreading about the cost
of being caught.
“Paper thefts have been dormant for
about four months since we started hitting
hard, but it has started to go up again,”
says D’Angelo. “We are now concentrating
more on metal. We are getting an
increase in the amount of impounds. It is a
similar problem worldwide. You have
manhole covers, copper and construction
material being stolen.”
Since October 2007, the city has confiscated
about 224 vehicles. Those arrested
pass through a civil court. D’Angelo
and his officers have also issued nearly 70
notices of violation to owners or operators
that were stealing recyclables in front of
commercial premises.
The increased fines are having an
effect. “When it was $100,” says D’Angelo,
people would be nice to us, give us
their ID and $100. Now that the fine is
$2,000, they are thinking twice about it,
but we are also catching repeat offenders.”
The DSNY is fully aware that the
criminals know the routes and pick-up
times for the recycling collections, information
that is available on its website that
informs residents when they should put
out their recyclables.
But this also works in favor of the
police, who say that thefts are presently
more prevalent in Brooklyn, the Bronx
and Queens.
“The bait for us is empty vans – mostly
older vans with two people inside,” says
D’Angelo. “We have a system. We follow
people around and if we see a van loaded
with metal, we stop them and usually it
works out for us. We set up spots for surveillance
situations, based on the collection
lists, and we’ve been successful.”
Residents are urged to contact the
DSNY by calling 311 if they see what
they believe to be recyclable thefts.
DSNY police do patrol recycling collection
routes prior to the start of collection
and their presence has helped to reduce
thefts.
Working with the scrap dealers or
transfer stations as they are known in
NYC, is the responsibility of the Business
Integrity Commission (BIC), which has
pursued investigations to see if the people
bringing in metal or paper have the proper
conveyance permits. The BIC is responsible
for regulating private waste haulers.
In NYC, there are several types of
transfer stations – non-putrescable stations
which handle construction and demolition
debris; fill material stations that handle
dirt, rock and similar materials; putrescable
stations that handle waste consistent
with household garbage; and transfer stations
that are regulated by the State of
New York that handle paper and metal.
It was recently reported that 52
DSNY workers were using their own
department’s vehicles to illegally collect
metal recyclables placed at the curb by
residents. The material was then sold to
Pine Scrap Metal, Inc.
The DSNY took action from the start.
“Last year,” says Lipani, “the department
had suspicions about Sanitation
workers taking bulk metals and selling it
to scrap yards. We forwarded this information
to the NYC Department of Investigation,
who just did the investigation. Just
recently, the city’s Conflict of Interest
Board announced that the Sanitation
workers involved were suspended without
pay anywhere from 3 to 30 days.”

American Recycler, September 2008
Houston-based Greenstar North
America, a private processor of recyclables
and a municipal recycler in
Texas, announced that it has rebranded
all Vista Fibers operations across Texas.
Greenstar acquired Dallas-based
Vista Fibers and Mid America, Vista
Fibers’ previous parent company, in October
2007. Through this partnership,
Greenstar now holds significant recycling
operations in Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston
and San Antonio and employs more than
300 people across the state. In addition,
Greenstar recently signed an agreement
with the City of Austin to provide recycling
processing services, which are
scheduled to begin in October, 2008.
“The name switch will be largely
transparent to our Texas customers,” said
Steve Ragiel, CEO of Greenstar North
America.
Greenstar has experienced a dramatic
rise in recycling rates across its Texas markets,
particularly in San Antonio and Dallas.
The sharp increase is a direct result of
both cities implementing a single-stream
collection system, as well as converting
their existing 18-gallon (San Antonio) and
blue bag (Dallas) collection system to 95
gallon carts. Single-stream processing lets
participants put recyclables conveniently
into one bin, allowing for more efficient
collection of materials and a decrease in
labor.
Greenstar has recorded dramatic
increases of materials collected. San
Antonio rates have increased as high as
200 percent over the previous collection
approach in some areas. Dallas has
experienced a more than 300 percent
increase during the past 18 months of
utilizing single-stream processing and
95 gallon carts.
While Texas has not traditionally
been known for its recycling programs,
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RiverQuest delivers
marine hybrid vessel
Explorer, RiverQuest’s newly constructed
90 foot, 150-passenger hybrid
boat left Bayou La Batre, Alabama on
August 3 and arrived into the Pittsburgh
Pool of the Ohio River on August 13 after
a 1,600 mile journey through nine states.
Explorer is a state-of-the-art education
and research vessel that is designed to
serve students and the public in the Pittsburgh
region with transformative on board
programs. The Explorer will be docked at
their home port to begin a month of intensive
preparation to take their first passengers
onboard in the coming months after
local United States Coast Guard inspections
are completed.
Explorer is a global benchmark for
greening the boating industry with one of
the first commercial marine hybrid propulsion
systems on earth.
Explorer, also one of the world’s first
green-engineered floating classrooms,
marks a new era in marine design for environmental
sustainability. RiverQuest
instructors will teach about the multi-disciplinary
subject through the wide variety
of programs that the organization offers.
The psychology instructor had just finished
a lecture on mental health and was
giving an oral test.
Speaking specifically about manic
depression, she asked, "How would you
diagnose a patient who walks back and
forth screaming at the top of his lungs
one minute, then sits in a chair weeping
uncontrollably the next?"
A young man in the rear raised his
hand and answered, "A basketball
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Section A Page 10 American Recycler, September 2008
EQUIPMENT
SPOTLIGHT
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Single-stream collection of materials
promises to greatly increase participation
rates for municipal recycling programs. Consumers
have been shown to nearly double the
amount of material they divert away from
landfills and into recycling in communities
where single-stream recycling programs have
been initiated.
But commingling paper, glass, plastic,
metals and other recyclables in a single curbside
container also poses problems. While
participation rates usually rise, so does the
amount of waste generated by the recycling
effort. Plus, the recycled material may not be
as pure, which creates headaches for the
glassmakers, paper plants and others who
would reuse the materials.
One solution to the single-stream
conundrum is effective sorting of recyclable
materials. At National Recovery Technologies,
Inc. (NRT) in Nashville, Tennessee,
engineering manager John Thomsen says
their Multi Sort IR and Multi Sort IR ES
Combo and Spyder machines are the most
likely to go into single-stream applications.
“The main issue we confront is that containers,
plastic bottles and other similar sized
objects end up in a stream that needs to be
sorted by polymer and other characteristics,
says Thomsen.” “The part of that that we do
is to take out various polymers.”
Sorting PET is usually done first with
the Multi Sort IR using transmitted infrared.
“We consider that a more reliable detection
method. However, its use is limited to the
transparent and translucent objects,” notes
Thomsen. In a multi-stage process, materials
are then immediately separated into transparent
and opaque objects. The Spyder can be
used for further separation. “Instead of separating
the objects by color or transparency, it
is looking at the actual polymers,” says
Thomsen. For each detection system, controlled
compressed air jets are used to physically
separate materials from the rest of the
stream.
NRT has long sold sorting equipment to
companies reclaiming mixed bales of recycling
materials, and now is seeing good
growth from municipal and other mixed
recycling facilities. “Lately we’ve been very
busy,” Thomsen says. “This has always been
a cyclical business driven by the value of the
commodities being processed and public
interest and policy in recycling. Both of
those are currently driving an increase in this
kind of business.”
At General Kinematics in Crystal Lake,
Illinois, market director Bill Guptail says the
company’s vibratory finger screeners and
destoner classifiers are the main General
Kinematics products sold for single-stream
sorting applications. Finger screeners size
items for better downstream recovery, while
destoner classifiers are used to separate glass
and other heavy items.
“In a smaller facility where they’re going
to run different items such as commercial
waste, we’ll get a high percentage of old cardboard
cartons (OCC) to go over the top of the
screen and a high percentage of newspapers to
go through,” he says. “If it’s traditional singlestream,
where there’s no OCC, we’ll do a different
size and get newspaper to go over the
top of the screen and rigid commingled materials
to go through.”
Typically, materials are sent to optical
sorters for further separation after General
Kinematics’ vibratory screeners do some of the
heavy lifting. “That improves the ability of the
downstream equipment,” Guptail says of
multi-step sorting that starts with General
Kinematics equipment.
Glass is a special problem in singlestream,
and one addressed by Andela Products
Ltd. in Richfield Springs, New York.
Andela’s GP1 & GP2 glass pulverizers
plus trammels reduce glass in
mixed streams of recycling materials
to 3/8th inch or less fragments and
also removes sharp edges. Then the
glass is easier to separate using simple
screens. After dropping out of the
stream, the mixed glass is turned into
useful products such as roadbed,
cover, mulch, pipe bedding as well as
sandblasting & water filtration media.
Cynthia Andela, president and
chief operating officer, says, “In single-stream
recycling, the glass is a lot
of times forgotten. It’s hard to get it
out of the stream because it’s all broken
and mixed in with paper and
other things. We can put our equipment
in to drive the glass to smaller
sizes, all the way down to 3/8th inch
size and it doesn’t have any sharp
edges. Then we can screen it out. You
have simple mechanical separation.”
Andela’s system capacities vary
from 1 ton per hour to 20 tons per
hour. All comprise three major steps.
First, there is a hopper where material
enters and is metered. Next, a pulverizer
breaks down glass and rounds
edges. Finally, there is a screening
unit where glass falls through holes
and out of the material stream. Conveyors
tie it all together. Andela’s
pulverizer breaks the glass only while
leaving most other materials such as
paper and plastic alone. “We put a
magnet in the front of our systems to
pull out the major steel. Soft cans and
things like that aren’t a problem,”
Andela says.
Andela’s business has changed
mostly in the way recycling materials
are being handled. “There’s been
a shift over the last four or five years
to single-stream recycling because
you have a higher recycling rate at
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the curb,” she says. “But it also means the
material is more mixed and the systems to
separate it become more expensive and more
involved. It’s brought to the forefront the
necessity of providing for value-added products.”
With that in mind, she spends much of
her time developing and educating recyclers
about viable applications for mixed glass
recovered from single-stream recycling systems.
At Karl W. Schmidt & Associates Inc. in
Commerce City, Colorado, national sales
manager Jeffrey Van Galder says the company
integrates sorting equipment from several
European manufacturers into the conveyor
belt systems it makes for single-stream applications.
Schmidt offers sorters based on technologies
including magnetic, eddy current,
disk screens, ballistic separators and optical.
Andela Products Ltd.
Magnetic Separation Systems, Inc.
National Recovery Technologies, Inc.
Sorting for
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John Andela
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Kristine Keily
512-837-9400
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Al Gedgaudas
800-345-4946
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Jeffrey B. Van Galder
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Felix Hottenstein
615-781-2669
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800-269-7237
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Ballistic separators appeal to customers struggling
with disk separators that experienced frequent
downtime due to wire, plastic ties and plastic
bags wrapping around the disks and axles. “Ballistic
separation applies high frequency agitation to
the material through the use of paddles rather than
disks,” he explains. “We wanted to have an option
for people that were frustrated with disk screens.”
One of Schmidt’s most active markets consists
of smaller single-stream sorting centers processing
up to 200 tons a day, Van Galder says. He
looks for growth to continue. “There’s going to be
an ongoing high demand for these materials and it
comes back to collection and making it easy for the
material to enter the recycling stream,” he says. “I
think single-stream is going to keep on rolling.”

American Recycler, September 2008
Recycling farm waste
materials: from dead
animals to scrap metal
by Irwin Rapoport
Recycling on the farm, be it a family-run
operation or a corporate enterprise,
has always been a reality in terms
of protection of the land and to maximize
economic output.
While nearly 70 percent of the
State of Kansas’ population lives in
urban areas, the bulk of the state’s revenues
are generated by agriculture, primarily
through wheat and corn production,
as well as the raising of cattle and
swine and dairy production. These various
agricultural sectors generate various
types of waste that are recycled
and are subject to a variety of regulations
and requirements.
With the growth in the production
of ethanol for fuel, the crops, as well as
the leftover vegetation, is sought and
purchased by the ethanol industry. The
agricultural debris is also used by farmers
as ground cover, as well as used by
manufacturers as an ingredient for various
products.
Dealing with the carcasses of
slaughtered animals (including those
that died naturally) and the manure that
those animals generated, is of prime
importance to various state agencies and
to the farmers themselves. The key is to
prevent these materials from leaching
into the water table and contaminating
the soil.
“In Kansas there are several things
that help,” says Ken Powell, an environ-
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system. There are several renderers that
will take the dead animals as long as
they are in good shape. The system
probably takes 90 percent plus of the
dead animals.
“For the other 10 percent, some go
for composting,” he adds. “We like the
composting part of it, especially for
swine operations. A lot of them go into
composting and they can do it on the
site, and real fast. If it is done right, it is
very environmentally sound.”
Regulation KAR-28-29-25D regulates
the composting of dead animals,
while KAR-28-29-25C regulates the
composting of
manure. There are
also regulations
regarding composting
of other
organic materials –
what can be used,
how it is done and
where the operations
can be sited.
Every February, Powell organizes
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and even more effective than having
regulations in place,” he says. “When
you train them how to do it right, you
end up with a better operation. We make
sure that it gets handled correctly from
an environmental standpoint.”
Powell, whose specialization is
composting, also does some on-site visits
to individual farms to help get composting
operations in place.
In 2007, compost-generated leaves
and grass and various yard wastes – collected
in cities and counties – reached
the 80,000 tons plus level. Records are
not kept for compost generated by the
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urally by recycling reduces the amount
of chemically and fuel-based fertilizers
that are imported into the state.
This also reduces green house gas
emissions in terms of production of fertilizers
and the transportation of those
fertilizers to farms.
Rendering ensures that carcasses
are recycling and 90 percent of the material
generated by renderers is used to
create meat and bone meal, which is
used for livestock feed and goes into dog
and cat food products.
“We still sell a lot of this feed to
overseas markets, with much of it going
into poultry and swine feeding,” says
Powell. “It’s a high quality protein.”
The blood is converted to blood meal,
which is used for fertilizer production.
Renderers generally collect the carcasses
(dead, weak or old animals) from
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Section A Page 12 American Recycler, September 2008
ON TOPIC
Recycling in Seattle
The economics of not recycling caught up with Seattle
in the late 1980s. They were then faced with a problem that
needed to be resolved quickly as local landfills would soon
close, the citizens and politicians in the West Coast city
determined that quick action was needed.
This led to the start of Seattle’s solid waste diversion
recycling collection programs in 1989 - programs that are
considered to be some of the most effective in the nation.
To learn more about what Seattle has done and is planning
for the future, American Recycler spoke with Chuck
Clarke, the director of Seattle Public Utilities.
If a city or county were willing to
make the effort and allocate the necessary
resources based on best
practices from Seattle and other
cities, how long would it take to
establish an aggressive diversion
and recycling program?
Clarke: Seattle increased its recycling
diversion by nearly 150 percent within
the first five years of instituting its residential
curbside recycling program.
Of America’s cities and urban centers
with populations of 500,000
plus, how many have matched Seattle’s
achievements and what do you
believe is preventing those who have
not done so, from establishing similar
programs?
Clarke: Recycling has been a success
story for many American cities, including
Portland and San Francisco. They’ve
done it by changing the way they think of
garbage, not as a necessary evil and
municipal revenue source, but literally as
a waste on the environment, a waste on
their community and a waste of resources.
Participation by the residential and
non-residential sectors is essential
to the success of recycling and
diversion programs. In terms of an
education program, what are the
necessary elements that a municipality
must implement to get both
sectors on board?
Clarke: Businesses and residents need
clear information on what to recycle, how
Q & A
by Irwin Rapoport
What are the necessary “carrots”
that a municipality must employ to
get the residents and businesses to
actively participate in diversion and
recycling programs?
Clarke: Seattle offers a “pay as you
throw” garbage can system that serves
as a terrific incentive for businesses and
residents to recycle. The bigger the can
you need for your garbage, the more you
pay, which is a simple way to encourage
recycling.
For those few who don’t recycle, the city
has prohibited recyclables from the
garbage. Apartments and businesses
face fines if they repeatedly don’t recycle,
and households risk not having their
garbage picked up if they don’t recycle.
Five years ago, Seattle banned citizens
from placing recyclables in
their trash. Has this policy been
accepted by the majority of people?
Is the city still issuing fines for noncompliance?
Clarke: The vast majority of businesses
and residents support our recycling ordinance,
with more than a 98 percent recycling
compliance rate and a 10 percent
increase in diversion since the ordinance
passed in 2003. Last year, less than 20
fines were levied against apartments and
businesses for not recycling.
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This information should be presented frequently.
Reward program nearly
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RecycleBank and AAA Recycling
and Trash Removal Services of Fairfax,
Virginia, announced that residential
recycling rates have increased 90 percent
after the implementation of an innovative
program designed to encourage
more recycling. The increase in recycling
is tied to RecycleBank, a new program
offering from AAA to their customers
that uses rewards to motivate
people to recycle. After launching the
program on June 2, 2008, households
have nearly doubled the amount of waste
they recycle.
RecycleBank motivates households
and communities to recycle by measuring
the amount of recyclables from each
household and then converting the
weight into RecycleBank points. These
points can be viewed and redeemed at
www.recyclebank.com with over 450
national and local RecycleBank reward
partners.
“We knew that our customers could
do more recycling and RecycleBank
provided the motivation,” said Brad
Baty, general manager of AAA Recycling
and Trash Removal Services.
“RecycleBank is a great way for us to
improve environmental efforts by raising
curbside recycling rates. RecycleBank’s
program presented AAA with the opportunity
to be the channel through which
the increased participation is realized.”
Participating households redeem
their RecycleBank points with national
Farm waste
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farms and when processed, are placed in
a pressure cooker that is employed to
reclaim the protein and other materials.
Most of the large meat packing
plants also operate their own rendering
operations. Smaller packing plants, of
which there are many, send the bones,
offal and hides to rendering plants. The
hides, depending on how they are treated,
are valuable and many of them are
shipped overseas.
Powell stresses that farmers and the
agricultural community in general, have
always practiced recycling – using what
they can to maximize revenues in
processes and procedures that make economic
sense.
“That is where we end up looking at
composting,” he says. “We do have onsite
burial of animals, but we don’t like
to see that. It’s a pretty small number
and simply done because it is the most
economical measure.”
The KDHE’s Bureau of Water is
behind much of the regulations regarding
the use of manure on fields and how
composting is done and where such
operations can be located. The regulations
are designed to ensure that the
spraying of manure is based on the principle
that the plants consume whatever is
sprayed (based on agronomic rates) and
that there are no leftover materials that
could potentially contaminate the water
table by seeping into the water table or
RecycleBank reward partners such as
Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Green Mountain
Coffee, and CVS/pharmacy, as well
as with local Northern Virginia retailers
such as Shoppers, Anita’s, Paisano’s
Pizza, and Broadway Gallery. Many
local and national retailers recognize the
value of partnering with an environmentally-friendly
company such as Recycle-
Bank. Reward partners gain exposure in
the marketplace, which leads to customer
loyalty and repeat business. Additionally,
households recognize the value
of shopping with retailers that believe in
the importance of environmental initiatives
and community.
“The RecycleBank program has
been absolutely fantastic for our community
and was frankly long overdue”,
says Peter Brownell, RecycleBank member
and AAA customer. “We were conscientious
before, but now that we have
the program we’ve increased our household
recycling tremendously and use our
rewards points for useful, everyday purchases.”
“As RecycleBank continues to
expand across the country, our vision to
preserve the environment by dramatically
increasing household recycling rates
becomes more and more attainable,” said
Ron Gonen, co-founder and CEO of
RecycleBank.
With the program’s immediate success,
AAA is considering the implementation
of RecycleBank in other markets.
flow into open pipes, streams or rivers.
“Manure has nitrate and if you put
too much nitrate on, then you end up
with your wells being contaminated,
blue baby syndrome and other health
hazards that can effect seniors and
adults,” says Powell.
Due to the increasing price of scrap
metal, scrap dealers are now actively
seeking material from rural states such
as Kansas, seeking old machinery that
can be found on many farms.
“There is a tremendous amount of
old machinery that gets generated on
these farms and now that scrap iron
prices are going up,” says Powell, “I’m
seeing a lot of it disappear. That’s a good
thing. It gets it out of the pastures. My
folks, who have a farm, have decades of
old machinery and are actually talking
about having someone come in and
clean it all up.”
He adds that this material should be
recycled and that more and more scrap
dealers are visiting farm country in
search of metal.
Rodney Ferguson, public service
executive of the KDHE’s Waste Reduction,
Public Education, and Grants Unit,
appreciates the efforts of farmers to
recycle their agricultural waste.
“It is often said that the farmer is
the best steward of the land,” he says.
“There is a quality there that has been
passed from generation to generation
that you have to take care of the land.
That would include off-farm activities
such as recycling household materials.”

American Recycler, September 2008
Seattle stands strong on recycling
by Irwin Rapoport
The City of Seattle is very close to
achieving its 60 percent waste target by
2012 and is looking to achieve a 70 percent
diversion rate by 2025. The success
of the program is based on a combination
of state and municipal legislation, public
education and an environmental awareness
by the city’s 530,000 people.
The 60 percent diversion rate goal
was established in 1988 and the city’s
curbside recycling program began one
year later. Prior to that, there were some
private recycling programs in place.
The desire to divert solid waste was
the result of the closure of in-town landfills
in the late 1980s.
“All the local options to divert our
garbage collection to other landfills were
really expensive,” says Brett Stav, senior
planning and development for the Seattle
Public Utilities. “We ended up doing a
long-haul contract to Arlington, Oregon (a
landfill operated by Waste Management),
which is 200 miles away and in the
process of deciding that, the community
and local officials made recycling diversion
a priority.”
State legislation does not give local
governments the authority to regulate
commercial recycling.
“For the most part,” says George
Sidles, business area manager for Recycling
and Solid Waste Collection, Processing
and Disposal, “we’ve had to rely on
the economics of scale because we provide
exclusive residential recycling services.
Initially, we let the private sector handle
the commercial sector and a lot of
businesses began voluntary recycling programs.
Over time, we created a smallscale
commercial recycling program that
was open to small businesses.
“In the last big range of program
updates in November 2003,” he adds, “we
made that same service available to any
commercial recyclers with the 60 percent
program. It’s a small-scale program, with
two 96-gallon recycling carts.”
Currently, the residential diversion
rate is 55 percent, with the commercial
rate at 53 percent. The recycling program
focus on paper, cardboard, metals, yard
waste, container glass and plastics.
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Household hazardous waste is also
targeted via a drop-off program where residents
can bring materials that will either
be recycled or disposed of properly. These
materials include paint, chemicals, batteries,
medical supplies and e-waste.
The majority of Seattle’s residential
solid waste and recycling collection –
solid waste once a week and recycling
every two weeks, is done through private
contractors.
“The city operates two transfer waste
transfer stations for the solid waste and the
contractors also transfer a portion of our
organics and green waste,” says Sidles.
“About 30 percent of our transfer system
is operated by the private sector.”
The current system has Waste Management
(WM) and Allied Disposal (AD)
collect solid waste, recyclables and yard
waste, with AD processing the recyclables.
Cedar Groves Composting processes the
organics via composting.
Sidles says the city is looking at the
possibility of bringing in technology to
derive solid fuels, gases and water from
the organics.
“There are some interesting things
coming down the pipe with anaerobic
digestion and other technologies,” he says.
“We are not there yet.”
In 2009, the system will have WM
and CleanScapes, a local start-up company
(See “A Closer Look”, page 14), handle
the collection aspect, with Allied Disposal
continuing to process the recyclables and
Cedar Groves responsible for the organics.
“Competition in the market place is a
good thing,” says Sidles.
Collected recyclables are sold by the
processor. The contract with the city does
not allow recyclables to be landfilled, but
it does allow material that should not have
been included in recycling to be landfilled
— a cost that Seattle covers. The city periodically
surveys the recyclables stream to
determine the contamination rate.
“Our contamination rate is about 2
percent and on the other end is the residuals,
the material that the processor cannot
market – about 5 percent” says Sidles.
“The processor pays those landfill costs.”
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels often
points out to his citizens how much their
recycling efforts save the city money.
Solid waste and recycling collection
comes under one bill.
“Since 1994, we had only one 6 percent
solid waste collection increase,” says
Stav. “We are planning a rate increase with
the new collection changes in 2009. The
increasing price of oil is a factor, but the
amount people have recycled has managed
to keep costs down overall. It has been
very beneficial for them in the long term,
economically and environmentally. Inflation
has caught up with the market.”
The city’s ongoing recycling education
campaign has been a success and it’s
a program that translates into the investment
of time and money.
“Seattle is a leader in recycling, along
with San Francisco, California and Portland,
Oregon,” says Stav. “We continually
educate our residents. They get communications
from us at least five times per year.
We send them a collection calendar every
year and four newsletters, as well as bimonthly
invoices.”
There is also a staff member who can
be contacted by phone or e-mail, whose
job is to provide information about recycling
to residents.
As well, an advisory board made up
of citizens provides input to the city on its
solid waste policy. These communication
channels have led to policy changes.
Seattle, Washington is currently focused
on achieving a 70 percent diversion rate.
“We got some good feedback about
co-mingling glass with the rest of our
recyclables,” says Stav. “Our customers
were very favorable about the amount of
time that would save them and it had a significant
role in the decision to make that
change. We also got some feedback
expressing a lot of interest in electronics
collection and the mayor is going to be
requesting that service as part of the new
package of services moving forward in the
next year.”
Cardboard and yard waste is banned
from commercial garbage. Sidles says that
the commercial sector is making efforts to
improve recycling.
“Many of them have taken that law
and run with it, setting up recycling programs
for their businesses,” he says. “A lot
of the emphasis on the recycling ethic has
been targeting the residents and as they go
to work, they influence their work place.”
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The city has a recycling-on-the-go
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which has bins placed along sidewalks,
and it recently started a pilot project to
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The city also encourages recycling by
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Back in 2004, city regulations forbid
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“They are treated the same as residences,”
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The program provides a one-time discount
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A Closer Look by Donna Currie
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Just ten years ago, CleanScapes
was pressure washing the alleyways
in the Pioneer Square area of Seattle.
It was a job that needed to be done,
and Chris Martin founded Clean-
Scapes to do it.
Today, CleanScapes is a growing
waste collection service, with about
80 employees, that is in competition
with some of the big names in the
industry.
Signe Gilson, waste diversion
manager for the company, said that in
the beginning, the idea was to make
the Pioneer Square area more pleasant
for both visitors and residents. Pioneer
Square is a densely built area,
—Signe Gilson
filled with historic buildings and with
many tourist attractions nearby.
First, Martin was doing pressure washing, but then he came up with “dumpster
free” trash removal that would eliminate the need for large dumpsters in the
alleys. The system was designed to be a “pay as you throw” operation, where
customers are charged for what they dispose of, rather than assessing a flat rental
fee for a dumpster. Gilson described it as a more cost-effective way for the businesses
to operate, since it “gives an incentive to reduce waste.”
The city of Seattle likes the dumpster-free approach so much that it is considering
enforcing a regulation that says dumpsters are not allowed in city rightof-ways.
Gilson said that the law is already on the books but hasn’t been
enforced. Now that dumpster-free trash pickups are available, businesses have a
viable alternative to the dumpsters.
Gilson explained that CleanScapes’ dumpster-free customers use colorcoded
plastic bags for waste, and CleanScapes makes pickups once or twice a
day on each route, so trash isn’t left out for long periods of time. She said that
this works well for a dense urban area where the land that the dumpster takes up
is more valuable to the business. “Right of ways are for people,” Gilson said, and
this approach is “reclaiming the alleys,” for better use. “The idea is to make our
downtown areas livable.”
It wasn’t long before the dumpster-free business grew to include other parts
of the downtown area of Seattle, and then spread to other areas of the city. Just
recently, CleanScapes entered the more traditional waste hauling field when they
won a contract for waste hauling in the nearby city of Shoreline. In April of
2009, CleanScapes will also begin hauling trash in the city of Seattle, in a shared
contract with another waste hauler.
Gilson said that since CleanScapes has never owned a landfill, the company’s
focus has always been “the more modern one of waste diversion.” She said,
“We don’t have the mind set of owning a landfill and filling a landfill. Our direction
is waste reduction and recycling.”
The city of Seattle encourages its residents to recycle and has included
incentives for composting. Gilson said that compost is currently picked up every
other week, but expects that soon it will be every week. She also hopes that eventually
the regular trash pickups will decrease to every other week as composting
and recycling increase. “People are embracing it,” she said. Gilson said that next
to construction and demolition materials, food waste is one of the heaviest components
going to landfills today.
Gilson has been working for CleanScapes for about two years and said that
she most enjoys meeting with the customers and working with them to help them
increase recycling and composting. She said that Seattle’s trash leaves the area
on a train, stretching “a mile long,” and that she imagines that the work she is
doing will “help shorten the train.”
She is also enjoying watching the company grow, and expects that expansion
will continue. “There are a lot of small cities around here,” she said. Along
with the growth comes new employees, and she also enjoys interacting with
them.
As far as the company, she said that she particularly enjoys the innovation
and the fact that, “It’s encouraged to be creative.” And because the company is
locally owned, “We’re approachable here. We are part of the culture here.”
As part of the culture, CleanScapes participates in a number of community
events, including the city’s Clean and Green Parade, street fairs, and other events
where they set up collection locations for trash, compost and recyclables. “We
tend to get involved in community clean-up things,” she added.
Gilson said that when the company provides its service through a contract,
“the innovation isn’t as apparent,” to the customers, but she said that innovation,
future thinking, and creativity are what the company is about.
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Georgia supports recycling
with new license plate
In an effort to increase recycling
awareness in Georgia, the Keep Georgia
Beautiful Foundation and the Georgia
Department of Community Affairs
(DCA) are encouraging residents to
order the new “Recycle 4 Georgia”
license tag.
The “Recycle 4 Georgia” design
was created as part of the state’s Recycling
on the Go campaign which encourages
residents to remember to recycle
while away from home. It is the first step
of a statewide education campaign that
involves integrated marketing, regional
recycling collection hubs and the use of
consistent statewide data collection and
measurement. The Curbside Value Partnership
(CVP), a national invitation-only
program designed to help communities
grow their recycling programs through
education, is working with the state of
Georgia as it undergoes this effort.
The logo on the new license tag features
a quirky spin on a tattoo theme
where the “Recycle 4 Georgia” tattoo is
seen in unexpected places.
Georgia has the second largest market
for recyclables in the entire country –
second only to California. Right now,
the demand is so high for recyclable
Seattle
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and other chemical products and is sharing
the results of its legislative process, studies
and tendering with other cities and levels
of government.
As mentioned, residential recyclables
are collected every two weeks. This has
been the case for the past 20 years. Residents
have not opposed this system.
“The only opposition was that we
would change the system a little bit –
down from a 3-cart to a 1-cart system,”
says Stav, “and every once in awhile, we
had a contract change and they would
change the collection day, but in terms of
the overall system and the concept of recycling,
the citizens have been behind us 100
percent.”
materials within the state that companies
have to import recyclables from other
states just to meet demand. The state
conducted a waste characterization study
to determine exactly what Georgians
were throwing away. The study uncovered
that 70 percent of what is currently
going into Georgia landfills is recycla-
ble. Under DCA’s leadership, efforts are
underway to divert as much as possible
of that 70 percent from disposal and put
it right back into Georgia’s economy.
In order for the new license plate to
be offered year-round, 1,000 orders are
required by the end of the year.
The cost for the new tag is $25, $10
of which will go to the Keep Georgia
Beautiful Foundation to support recycling
and environmental education in the
state.
Next spring, residents will be allowed
to include meat and dairy products to the
food waste that they put out. As well, compost
collections will be done on a weekly
basis. Residents will also be allowed to
place glass in their 64-gallon wheeled
recycling containers. Glass is currently
placed in a separate container.
Economics, says Sidles, plays a critical
role on how quickly a city or town can
establish a successful recycling program
with a high diversion rate. Other factors,
he says, include whether the jurisdiction
has contractors or runs the service inhouse,
the types of recyclables being collected
and the proximity to markets and
how the necessary funds would be collected
from the residents.
“Economics aside,” says Stav, “the
keys to successful recycling would be providing
a convenient system that businesses
and citizens can take part in, continually
providing clear education on how to recycle
and the benefits of recycling.”
Many cities have contacted Seattle for
information on its diversion and recycling
programs, but the city is also taking notice
of best practices in other jurisdictions.
Seattle shares its experiences in terms of
legislation, recycling techniques, public
education programs and other aspects of
the programs.
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must have felt when they first
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strange language and wore unusual
clothes? Wouldn't you be a bit scared?"
"Nah," one boy answered, "I'd just figure
it was my sister's date."

American Recycler, September 2008
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W/L, tilt, block heater 144” CA,
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AUTO
Consumers protected from AAEQ responds to rules
title washing of flooded cars concerning metal thefts
It happens all across the country:
people purchase used cars without realizing
they were totaled in crashes, floods
and other disasters. These buyers end up
paying more than the car is truly worth
and often face steep repair bills.
To protect consumers from this fate,
Liberty Mutual is providing Carfax with
its data on every car declared a total loss
and sold for salvage for the past five
years and going forward. This information
is then disclosed to the buyer on a
Carfax vehicle history report.
“Varying state laws and a deceitful
practice called ‘title washing’ allows
salvaged cars to be sold without any
documentation that they were once
totaled,” said Ted Gramer, Liberty Mutual
executive vice president, personal
claims.
“In the aftermath of disasters like
the recent Midwestern floods and hurri-
canes, consumers need added protection
from increased fraudulent activity.”
Through the Liberty Mutual
Rewards website, www.libertymutualrewards.com,
Carfax is offering consumers
a free flood check to quickly confirm if a
vehicle they are interested in buying has
ever been reported as flood damaged.
Consumers also can purchase at the site a
complete Carfax vehicle history report at
a 25 percent discount.
Furthering its consumer safety
responsibility, Liberty Mutual also
recently announced its support of the
National Insurance Crime Bureau’s
VINCheck(SM) buyer protection program.
Consumers can input any vehicle’s
unique 17-character identification
number (VIN) at www.nicb.org to determine
if a participating insurance company
such as Liberty Mutual had previously
declared the car a total loss.
Estimates from the insurance industry conclude that as many as 700,000 vehicles
have suffered flood damage.
APRA E&M Division to have
learning booth at the Big R Show
Fernand Weiland, co-chairman of
the Automotive Parts Remanufacturers
Association’s (APRA) Electronics &
Mechatronics Division, recently
announced there will be a “learning
booth” at the International Big R Show
on November 2-3, 2008 in Las Vegas,
Nevada.
Due to the shift away from purely
mechanical, hydraulic and electrical
components, APRA’s E&M Division felt
compelled to offer this “learning booth”
as a way to familiarize remanufacturers
with the mechatronic components,
which combine mechanical and electrical
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Weiland stated, “Now is the time for
‘traditional’ remanufacturers of clutches,
starters, rack & pinions, brakes, transmissions,
etc., to embrace these new
technologies and learn to remanufacture
them.” APRA’s E&M Division is offering
a seminar during the Big R Show to
educate remanufacturers and to allow
them to better understand mechatronics.
During the show, remanufacturers
will be able to see hybrid starter-generators,
steering, electronic brakes, electronic
engine management, injection
systems, etc. Engineers will be available
at the E&M Division booth to answer
questions.
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Soaring copper prices have made
metal a prime target of local thieves.
The issue has created a perplexing problem
for recyclers like AAEQ Manufacturers
and Recyclers in North Las
Vegas, who are committed to weeding
out legitimate sellers from criminals
that indiscriminately steal materials—
ranging from copper wiring and plumbing
from residences and commercial
buildings to basic infrastructure such as
manhole covers and sewer grates.
In light of a police raid in August
at a large-scale Las Vegas-area recycling
operation, AAEQ president and CEO,
Scott Stolberg, says his company
remains committed to working with law
enforcement officials to help solve this
community-wide problem.
AAEQ recently invested in a new,
$100,000 point-of-purchase system
called Scrap Dragon that videotapes
transactions, takes scanned fingerprints
and gives separate IDs to each scrap
seller. After a completed transaction,
sellers receive a coupon which can be
redeemed at an on-premise ATM, which
also captures their image.
The new program is scheduled to
be operational in September of this year.
“Our goal is to help law enforcement
prosecute people that are stealing
metal and then trying to sell it as recyclable
scrap,” said Stolberg.
Las Vegas-area officials are considering
legislation to make it more diffi-
cult for scrap metal buyers and sellers to
profit from the thievery. The plan is to
loosely model Nevada’s scrap-buying
regulations after strict laws enacted in
Arizona last year.
AAEQ is a member of the Institute
of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc.
(ISRI), an organization that works hard
to combat metal theft and works with
government agencies to craft reasonable
regulations that will help keep recyclers
in business while cracking down on illegal
sales.
While Stolberg is in favor of good
regulations, he said some of the ideas
being tossed around by Las Vegas officials
would virtually put legitimate
recyclers like AAEQ out of business.
Stolberg encourages legislators and
law enforcement officials to bring
recyclers to the table when proposing
legislation. This would allow the recyclers
to have a voice in the process.
Stolberg also encourages them to look
at work previously completed by ISRI
that tries to balance the interests of all
parties.
ISRI has developed “Recommended
Practices and Procedures for Minimizing
the Risks of Purchasing Stolen
Scrap Materials,” that recyclers can
employ at their facilities to minimize
the risk of unintentionally purchasing
stolen materials. AAEQ has adopted
these guidelines in its operations.
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Section A Page 16 American Recycler, September 2008
METALS
Scrap metal recyclers’ New 2008 FeMET and StEEL
efforts lead to the arrest scholarships recipients chosen
of 161 suspected thieves
Theft alert system enables national notifications
In the first six months of 2008,
OmniSource helped police make 161
arrests of individuals suspected of possessing
and attempting to sell stolen
materials at yards owned by the Fort
Wayne, Indiana-based company.
Like many scrap recycling facilities
across the country, OmniSource works
closely with local law enforcement
agencies in a coordinated effort to curb
theft of materials, a problem that has
grown as prices for metallic and nonmetallic
commodities have risen in
recent months.
“We employ local off-duty police
officers to work at a number of our retail
operations,” states Jeff Wilke, corporate
safety-security manager for
OmniSource. “Our personnel provide
training in materials recycling to the
police officers so that they are better
able to spot recyclables that would not
ordinarily be purchased at the retail
level. The officers then join our employees
at the scale, allowing them to interact
with customers, to spot suspicious items
and to question those who are in possession
of them. The result is that this combined
effort has led to the arrests of 161
people...people who have stripped homes
of copper and other materials, employees
that steal from their businesses, thieves
who vandalize and steal railroad infrastructure
materials.”
Local law enforcement officers
working with OmniSource are investigating
another 165 cases where information
gathered during initial investigations
resulted in follow-up by police.
That in turn has led to a number of arrest
warrants being issued.
Theft of materials - ranging from
copper wiring and plumbing from residences
and commercial buildings to
basic infrastructure such as manhole
covers and sewer grates - has become an
overwhelming problem for communities,
police, and also recyclers themselves.
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nation’s recyclers have been victims of
one or more thefts in the past year.
“Materials theft is a growing problem
that affects all aspects of a community,
and cooperation between affected
parties is an essential part of the solution,”
stated Institute of Scrap Recycling
Industries (ISRI) president Robin
Wiener.
On the national level, ISRI’s efforts
to combat the materials theft problem
include partnering with the National
Crime Prevention Council to help educate
law enforcement about the industry
and the tools ISRI has available to aid
law enforcement. ISRI operates a nationwide
Theft Alert System that allows law
enforcement, scrap recyclers, or victims
of theft to quickly broadcast an e-mail
alert about a theft to scrap recyclers and
other stakeholders, not only in the state
where the theft occurred, but in surrounding
states as well. The system can
also be used to post “reverse alerts”
when recyclers identify material they
suspect has been stolen.
The ISRI Theft Alert System is
available free of charge to law enforcement
and qualified victims of materials
theft throughout the country. The alerts
have been effective in successfully solving
many thefts over the past two years.
To use the ISRI Theft Alert System, the
theft must first be reported to local law
enforcement and should include as much
identifying information on the materials
as possible, including photographs if
available. Send the email to theftalert@isri.org.
ISRI has also developed “Recommended
Practices and Procedures for
Minimizing the Risks of Purchasing
Stolen Scrap Materials,” that recyclers
can employ at their facilities to minimize
the risk of unintentionally purchasing
stolen materials.
For more information about ISRI’s
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The American Iron and Steel Institute
(AISI) and the Association for Iron
& Steel Technology Foundation’s “Ferrous
Metallurgy Education Today,”
(FeMET) and “Steel Engineering Education
Link”, (StEEL), initiatives, aimed at
attracting top talent to the North American
steel industry, have awarded scholarships
for 2008.
Nine students from six United
States and Canadian universities have
been awarded FeMET scholarships –
focusing on metallurgy and materials
science – and similarly five from five
United States universities have been
identified as StEEL scholarship finalists
– focusing on all engineering disciplines.
The next step for the StEEL finalists
is to be matched with interested corporate
sponsors. In addition to the
FeMET and StEEL Scholarships, AISI
and the AIST Foundation have awarded
the inaugural AISI/AIST Foundation
Premier Scholarship.
AISI/AIST Foundation Premier
scholarship winner:
Thomas J. Bailey, Metallurgical
Engineering, Missouri University of Science
& Technology
FeMET scholarship winners:
Hillary Griffith, Metallurgical Engineering,
Missouri University of Science
& Technology;
Bradley B. Hasek, Material Science
and Engineering, Pennsylvania State
University;
Mark J. Hlady, Materials Engineering,
University of Alberta;
Sarah Miller, Materials Science and
Engineering, Washington State University;
Scrap Metals
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throughout the industry. All figures are believed to be reliable and represent approximate pricing based on information obtained by AR (if applicable) prior to
publication. Factors such as grades, quality, volumes and other considerations will invariably affect actual transaction prices. Figures shown may not be consistent
with pricing for commodities associated with a futures market. While the objective is to provide credible information, there is always a chance for
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2
4
3 5
Commodity Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3 Zone 4 Zone 5
#1 Bushelings per gross ton $303.00 $300.00 $395.00 $445.00 $505.00
#1 Bundles per gross ton 295.00 292.00 390.00 394.00 478.00
Plate and Structural per gross ton 295.00 275.00 390.00 383.00 473.00
#1 & 2 Mixed Steel per gross ton 429.00 230.00 384.00 365.00 429.00
Shredder Bundles (t in) per gross ton 272.00 198.00 202.00 276.00 306.00
Crushed Auto Bodies per gross ton 272.00 200.00 220.00 240.00 313.00
Steel Turnings per pound 239.00 105.00 218.00 201.00 302.00
#1 Copper per pound 2.58 2.98 2.82 2.65 3.05
#2 Copper per pound 2.37 2.84 2.67 2.42 2.89
Aluminum Cans per pound 1.00 .81 .81 .70 .81
Auto Radiators per pound 2.01 1.97 1.68 1.70 2.04
Aluminum Core Radiators per pound .80 .70 .58 .58 .75
Heater Cores per pound 1.85 .98 1.17 1.01 1.49
Stainless Steel per pound .73 .74 .80 .63 .86
All prices are expressed in USD. Printed as a reader service only.
Micah P. Morrison, Metallurgical
Engineering, Missouri University of Science
& Technology
Nichlas Z. Swinteck, Materials Science
and Engineering, University of Arizona;
Hannah M. Terwelp, Metallurgical
Engineering, Missouri University of Science
& Technology;
Ashley E. Vayer-Jenkins, Metallurgical
Engineering, South Dakota School of
Mines & Technology;
Eric D. Young, Metallurgical Engineering,
South Dakota School of Mines &
Technology.
StEEL scholarship winners:
Marlon J. Belleth, Electrical Engineering,
University of Houston, sponsored
by CMC Steel, Texas;
Nathan E. Carlson, Metallurgical
Engineering, University of Utah, sponsored
by Nucor Steel, Utah;
Kalan P. Kucera, Materials Science &
Engineering, University of Kentucky,
sponsored by Nucor Steel, Texas;
Steven E. McKee, Mechanical Engineering,
University of Missouri-Columbia,
sponsored by ArcelorMittal;
Stefan K. Prodan, Materials Science
& Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
sponsored by California Steel
Industries, Inc.
Scholarships of $5,000 each will be
awarded to each scholar for the school
year beginning in fall 2008.
Each scholarship will include a paid
internship at a North American steel company
during the summer of the 2009 and a
second scholarship of $5,000 in the student’s
senior year.
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American Recycler, September 2008
METALS
June 2008 steel imports
up 7% from May 2008
Based on preliminary Census Bureau
data, the American Iron and Steel Institute
(AISI) reported that the United States
imported a total of 2,675,000 net tons (NT)
of steel in June 2008, including 2,068,000
NT of finished steel (up 7 percent and 1
percent, respectively, vs. May final data).
While total and finished steel imports
through the first six months of 2008 are
down 11 percent and 13 percent, respectively
vs. the same period in 2007, the
monthly average for finished imports in the
most recent 3-month period (April-June
2008) is up 2 percent vs. the monthly average
in the previous 3 months (January-
March 2008). Total and finished imports on
an annualized basis this year are each down
5 percent vs. 2007.
Key products with large increases in
June compared to the month before
include: Wire Rods (up 56 percent), Sheets
U.S. IMPORTS OF FINISHED STEEL MILL PRODUCTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
(Thousands of Net Tons)
Prelim
June 2008
May
2008
China 347 289 511 20.3% -31.8%
South Korea 168 202 193 -16.9% 12.0%
Japan 124 118 119 5.2% 3.8%
Germany 105 81 117 28.5% 9.9%
India 46 123 58 -62.4% 40.8%
Turkey 23 6 75 299.0% 26.0%
Taiwan 66 52 79 27.3% -37.1%
Australia 54 61 22 -9.9% 23.2%
All Others 1,135 1,116 1,239 1.7% -3.3%
Total 2,068 2,047 2,414 1.1% -5.1%
Source: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
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Pipe (up 47 percent), Plates – Cut Lengths
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For the first six months of 2008,
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American Recycler, September 2008
METALS
California deals with increased recycling thefts
by Irwin Rapoport
Many cities in California, as well as
those in other states, are experiencing
serious thefts of recyclables, primarily
aluminum cans and other containers.
This has led to considerations of
updating existing municipal laws and
the introduction of new legislation.
Thefts affect the income of private
contractors that provide recycling collection
services. Should these thefts continue
at the current level or increase, it
could affect the viability of some recycling
programs. Cities are also experiencing
financial losses.
“Professional poachers, rings of
recycling thieves operating fleets of
pickup trucks — crudely modified to
carry big loads — are stealing from residential
recycling bins in many cities,”
said Robert Reed, a spokesman for the
San Francisco-based Sunset Scavenger
Company.
”The scrap yards open early
just to buy recyclables from
professional poachers.”
—Robert Reed
“The problem has increased significantly
in the last two years,” he adds. “It
is an illegal underground economy. Residents
report the poachers are increasingly
aggressive. These professional
poaching rings operate outside the law.
Many have fleets of ten trucks or more.
They sweep through residential neighborhoods
the night before scheduled collection
service and steal bottles and
cans. Residents report poachers create
noise and litter and even trespass.”
The company is requesting that San
Francisco (SF) allocate more police
resources to solve the problem.
Thousands of SF residents have
filed complaints about groups of poachers
stealing material from their recycling
carts. One SF resident said that a recycling
thief assaulted her after she asked
the poacher not to take her recyclables.
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Based on declines in containers collected
in the curbside recycling program,
it is estimated that theft is costing the
city at least $469,000 (loss for 2007) a
year, above historic levels.
“Less material collected in municipal
recycling programs means less revenue
from selling recyclables to manufacturing
facilities to help fund local
recycling programs and to help offset
increases in monthly garbage bills
charged to customers,” said Reed.
“Ratepayers inherit the cost of recycling
theft. In the past few months, several
poacher trucks overloaded with bottles
taken from recycling carts in San Francisco
have crashed on area highways,
including at the foot of the Bay Bridge,
spewing broken glass and snarling traffic
for hours.”
Financial costs are also mounting
for the city’s recycling service providers.
Thieves cut locked recycling containers
with bolt cutters, damage others with
crowbars and even steal the recycling
carts. Sunset Scavenger Company and
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surveillance cameras.
Daily and community newspapers
in SF and the Bay Area are also concerned
and have taken their own measures
due to thefts of copies of their publications
at distribution points.
The increased pricing for newsprint
and cardboard is spurring the thefts. In
2007, California Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger signed a bill that prohibits
people from taking more than 25
copies of a free publication. A maximum
fine for a first offense is $250.
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Stealing bottles and cans is illegal
in SF, NYC and many other cities.
Thieves caught and convicted in SF face
fines of up to $500 and could serve up to
6 months in jail.
Reed referred to the relationship
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poachers,” he said. “They do not ask
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Concord, a city outside of SF, estimates
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Steel Dynamics sets OmniSource promotions
Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced a
number of management promotions and
organizational changes at OmniSource
Corporation, its wholly-owned metals
recycling subsidiary.
In making these announcements,
Mark Millett, Steel Dynamics executive
vice president for metals recycling and
ferrous resources and the recently
appointed president and chief operating
officer of OmniSource Corporation,
said, “These new appointments, all of
which have come from within the company,
will provide additional vision and
leadership as we continue to build our
OmniSource platform.
The following are appointed
OmniSource executive vice presidents:
Tommy Tuschman, who has served
as an executive with OmniSource since
the merger of his scrap company into
OmniSource in 1980, becomes
OmniSource’s executive vice president
for strategic sourcing and business
development. He will continue in his
role of sourcing of metals from major
strategic accounts as well as pursuing
other OmniSource growth opportunities.
Marvin Siegel will continue in his
role as executive vice president, leading
OmniSource Southeast. Previously, Marvin
served as president of Recycle South,
Salvaging Millions
by Ron Sturgeon
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Climbing above the competition:
A case study in real world marketing
Part 2 of 5
Last month, we talked about marketing vs. advertising. This month, I
would like to share a personal example. Here is how my marketing team
applied the principles we have been discussing to help make my first book for
entrepreneurs a success.
We applied the same basic principles of marketing that can work in your
business in marketing How To Salvage Millions From Your Small Business.
We first determined that our primary readers were owners in the auto recycling
industry. We know by our relationships that most of these readers have limited
time to read business books. If we could create a practical business guide worthy
of their investment of time, we concluded, we’d be doing something significant
already.
We figured that in order to make this book effective, we’d have to create
tools they could easily apply and place them in the margins for quick reference.
So we did that.
We also reasoned that our primary readers wouldn’t buy enough books to
justify our effort; so we slanted it toward general market small business entrepreneurs
(with less than 100 employees) who might be hungry for more success
than they’ve had to date.
In this example, our determination to provide a handy reference of tools
in the margin along with action items gave rise to the use of a wrench as an
icon, and that resulted in the photograph we used for the cover. It was exciting
to see that our subliminal message of a “tool” targeted our primary readers so
well.
That’s marketing. The idea in this illustration cost us nothing. The artwork
for our cover (which serves as on-going advertising) cost very little compared
to the normal cost of display advertising.
No one is going to market for you as well as you can, if you are thoughtful
and fully informed. You can go to an agency, but you may end up disappointed.
Your results may not be what you want and you will have spent a lot
of money on the effort.
Ad agencies are probably not your best bet because most small businesses
simply can’t allocate the financial resources required to hire a top advertising
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We believe the best thing you can do is to learn to understand marketing
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METALS
which became a part of OmniSource earlier
this year.
Larry Adelman has been named
OmniSource executive vice presidentnon-ferrous
group. Larry, who will be
responsible for strategic operations of the
non-ferrous group, served as president of
Admetco, a non-ferrous scrap processor,
from 1977 until it was acquired in 2004 by
OmniSource.
Rich Brady is named OmniSource
vice president-ferrous sourcing and marketing.
Rich previously served as vice
president for ferrous resources for Steel
Dynamics (SDI) and upon joining the
company in 2004 established SDI’s inhouse
scrap procurement department.
Bob Brewer is named OmniSource
vice president-ferrous operations. In this
role, Bob will be responsible for six geographically-defined
OmniSource scrap
collection and processing divisions in the
Midwest. Bob previously served as Southern
Indiana division manager.
Jason Redden is named OmniSource
vice president-national accounts and
foundry sales. Jason becomes responsible
for procurement and management of scrap
metal from large regional and national
industrial accounts. Jason has held marketing
positions at OmniSource since 1997.
Steve Alberico is named Omni-Source
vice president, non-ferrous sourcing and
marketing. Steve previously served as
nickel and stainless commodity manager.
A 28-year veteran of the metals industry,
he has held numerous positions in scrap
procurement, sales, and operations.
Jeff Rynearson, a 25-year employee
of OmniSource, has been named vice president,
non-ferrous operations. In this
capacity, he will be responsible for the
company’s six high-production non-ferrous
processing facilities in the Midwest.
Denny Luma, president of Superior
Aluminum Alloys, Inc., also becomes a
vice president of OmniSource. Superior
Aluminum Alloys is a wholly-owned subsidiary
of OmniSource Corporation. Prior
to joining OmniSource in 2001, Denny
was president of Wabash Alloys.
Steel Import Permit
applications up 9%
Based on the Commerce Department’s
most recent Steel Import Monitoring
and Analysis (SIMA) data, the
American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI)
reported that steel import permit applications
for the month of July totaled
2,916,000 net tons (NT).
This was a 9% increase from both
the 2,671,000 permit tons recorded in
June 2008, and the June preliminary
imports total of 2,675,000 NT.
Import permit tonnage for finished
steel in July was 2,206,000 NT, an
increase of 7% from the preliminary
imports total of 2,068,000 NT in June.
For the first seven months of 2008
(including July SIMA and June preliminary),
total steel imports were
18,791,000 NT, down 11% from the
21,110,000 NT imported in the first
seven months of last year.
For July 2008, the largest finished
steel import permit applications for offshore
countries were for China (367,000
NT), Korea (223,000 NT), Japan
(164,000 NT), Germany (108,000 NT)
and India (85,000 NT).
Finished steel import permit applications
for China increased 6% in July
compared to June preliminary imports
and were the highest monthly total since
July of 2007. Products that increased in
July vs. the June preliminary include:
Reinforcing Bar (up 45%), Oil Country
Goods (up 21%), Hot Rolled Bar (up
19%), Hot Dipped Galvanized Sheet &
Strip (up 17%) and Line Pipe (up 13%).
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door of a building ajar.
He let the dog out of his patrol car
and commanded it to enter and seek.
Jumping from the back seat, the dog
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METALS
Southern Recycling relocates
New Orleans operations
Southern Recycling is relocating its
business to a different site in the New
Orleans metro area, allowing the company
to maintain its operations in
Louisiana. The company’s $40 million
investment will retain 150 jobs and generate
100 new jobs in the region over the
next three years.
Due to the closure of the Mississippi
River-Gulf Outlet (MRGO), Southern
Recycling had to select a new location
for its shipbreaking and metal recycling
operations. The company, one of New
Orleans’ oldest businesses, considered
six in-state and out-of-state deep-water
sites. Southern Recycling purchased
approximately 344 acres of batture land
and 117 acres of contiguous dry land in
St. Charles Parish. The site’s deep-water
access and large, wide batture were critically
important to the company’s ability
California thefts
Continued from Page 21
thieves arrive ahead of us at night and
steal the materials. It’s unreal. When I
come to work in the morning, there is a
line-up of trucks coming in to sell the
bottles and cans that they stole last night.
Unfortunately, you can’t prove anything
when they come in. You have to catch
them when they are doing it.”
Garbarino, who believes that there
are 30 pick-up trucks involved in thefts,
said that the county has not made any
arrests.
“They are obviously organized
because they know where to go – they
know our routes better than we do,” he
said. “The county needs to put out more
police patrols at night. The District
Attorney is also a problem. He won’t
prosecute anybody if it is $500. The
individual load may be less than $500,
but when you add it up, it goes into the
hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Garbarino is seeking support from
his industry colleagues to persuade a
State Assembly member or Senator to
introduce a bill that would have the state
distribute funds to municipal police
forces and Sheriff’s offices to ensure that
officers would be dedicated to patrol
recycling collection routes to deter thefts
and apprehend thieves.
“There is hundreds of millions of
dollars in deposit money that has never
been recovered because people put bottles
and cans in recycle bins,” he said.
“If we can tap that money, it can make a
difference. We need a lot of help and if
we don’t get any help from the state or
the cities, I am going to have to hire people
to keep an eye out on what people
put on the curb for us. I am afraid that
violence may result from that.
“If the thieves know that someone is
watching them and that they will be
arrested if caught,” he added, “they’ll
know we are no longer going to stand
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to receive ships being scrapped and to
transport recycled materials to customers.
“As a Louisiana company for 108
years, this is the place we want to do
business, and we wanted to stay as close
to New Orleans as possible,” Southern
Recycling CEO Joel Dupré said.
According to Dupré, another key
factor in the decision to remain in
Louisiana was the support he received
from the state’s congressional leaders.
As the result of vigorous efforts on the
part of Louisiana’s congressional delegation,
the company will use federal
Water Resources Development Act
funds to help offset the cost of the project.
The company also recently
announced the return of its headquarters,
including 25 corporate jobs, to downtown
New Orleans.
for this. We need somebody to sponsor
that bill and get it passed quickly.”
Garbarino estimates that his company
has lost $90,000 a month for the past
9 months due to thefts.
“It costs me a lot more to send 20
trucks out to pick up recyclables and
come in with very little to sell,” he said.
“It’s also the ratepayers who are losing. I
get paid whether I pick up nothing or
what I am supposed to collect. If local
jurisdictions do not reach the diversion -
age required by the state, they can be
fined $10,000 a day.”
He added that his firm will be asking
the county for increased fees to
cover his losses, a request that is allowed
for in his contract.
“If they don’t want to pay us, the
only logical thing to do is cancel the
recycling collection program,” said Garbarino.
“I don’t like to put the city on the
spot. I would like for somebody to come
up with a solution to this.”
The recyclables collected by private
contractors in Marin County belong to
the contractors, but the amount of material
collected is credited to the county.
MSS is one of five companies that
collect solid waste and recyclables in
Marin County.
Garbarino, who has been involved
in the waste management business since
1955, notes that thieves use beat-up
vehicles, often with wooden sideboards
attached to them.
“These people are destroying the
program,” he warned. “They are stealing
hundreds of millions throughout the
state.”
While California appears to be a
hotbed for thefts, stealing is occurring in
El Paso, Texas; Westchester County,
New York which is looking into passing
legislation that would implement $1,000
to $2,000 fines and 90 days in jail; and
Truckee (North Tahoe), Nevada.
Westchester, in 2007, generated
close to $5.7 million from the sale of its
recyclables, most notably cans, along
with glass, plastic and cardboard.
Section A Page 23
OSHA issues scrap metal recycling safety
and health hazards guidance report
The Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) has issued a
new guidance report to assist metal recycling
facility employers and employees
with safety and health hazards issues
that arise from scrap metal recycling.
The guide can assist with the identification
of the various hazards associated
with exposure to various metals and pro-
May steel shipments down .8%
The American Iron and Steel Institute
reported that for the month of May
2008, United States steel mills shipped
9,008,000 net tons, a 0.8 percent decrease
from the 9,087,000 net tons shipped in
May 2007 and a 4.2 percent decrease
from the 9,403,000 net tons shipped in the
previous month, April 2008.
A year-to-year comparison of yearto-date
shipments shows the following
changes within major market classifications:
service centers and distributors, up
4.3 percent; automotive, down 4.1 percent;
construction and contractors’ products,
down 2.7 percent; and oil and gas,
up 5.6 percent.
Nucor acquires two companies
Nucor Corporation announced that
its wholly owned subsidiary, The David
J. Joseph Company (DJJ), has signed a
purchase agreement to acquire the assets
of the American Compressed Steel operations
of Secondary Resources, Inc.
American Compressed is based in
Kansas City, Missouri. In addition, DJJ
has completed the acquisition of substantially
all the assets of Victoria,
Texas-based Victoria Recycling.
American Compressed Steel was
founded over 50 years ago. In addition
to the Kansas City location, American
Compressed also operates facilities in
cessing chemicals. It will also assist in
managing and identifying the hazards
related to the processes and equipment
used in metal scrap recycling operations.
To obtain a free copy of this report,
visit www.americanrecycler.com and
click on the link OSHA – Guidance for
Scrap Metal Recyclers.
St. Joseph and Sedalia, Missouri. American
Compressed employs 112 people
and processes nearly 180,000 tons annually.
The acquisition is expected to close
within 30 days.
Victoria Recycling was founded in
2007. Victoria Recycling employs 13
people and processes over 24,000 tons
annually.
Upon acquisition, American Compressed
Steel will become part of DJJ’s
Advantage Metals Recycling group.
Since early June, Victoria Recycling has
been affiliated with Texas Port Recycling,
another DJJ regional company.

Section A Page 24 American Recycler, September 2008
The Green Builders Council of DC,
located in Washington D.C., unveiled
the first green collar job training curriculum
for the Washington, D.C.-area construction
industry.
The curriculum will train current
construction workers, plus career and
technical education students entering the
District's construction trades programs,
in environmentally-sensitive construction
methods and green building rating
systems as certified under the U.S.
Green Building Council's Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) standard.
Thanks in part to the leadership of
the members of the Green Builders
Council of DC, more than 100 buildings
in the District, totaling over 120 million
square feet, are already LEED certified.
Including planned projects, members
of the Green Builders Council will
be responsible for more than 200 million
square feet of LEED certified construction
in the District. Upon successful
David Muir, of Olney, Maryland
pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud
the U.S. Small Business Administration’s
(SBA) 8(a) program, which is
designed to assist socially and economically
disadvantaged small businesses.
According to the plea agreement,
since August 1998, Muir worked for, or
was associated with, three Maryland
companies that performed asbestos and
lead abatement and demolition work on
federal and private facilities.
Between 1998 and 2007, all three
companies participated in the SBA’s 8(a)
program.
For one of the companies, Muir represented
himself to different contractors
and subcontractors doing business with
the company as operations manager,
project manager, quality control manager
and vice president.
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train workers and students to be proficient
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construction presents to the environment;
Understanding the life cycle phases
of a building and their impacts on the
environment;
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to conventional building practices
and understanding the costs and benefits
of those alternatives, and;
Understanding the U.S. Green
Building Council's LEED rating process
and being able to apply construction
practices that contribute to a building's
LEED rating.
The new curriculum is the product
of a partnership between the Green
Builders Council of DC and the Florida-
In violation of SBA’s regulations,
Muir and his co-conspirators, who are
all non-disadvantaged individuals, exerted
significant financial and operational
control over the three Maryland corporations
in a variety of ways, including:
personally indemnifying the liabilities of
one of the companies, which enabled it
to obtain higher bonding and 8(a) contracts
of higher value than the company
otherwise would have been qualified; for
exercising significant control over the
contracts bid upon by all three companies;
and exercising control over the
selection and payment of subcontractors
on behalf of two of the companies.
To continue participating in the program
each year, the companies' presidents
were required to submit updates to
the SBA in which they certified that the
companies remained eligible.
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Asbestos abatement manager pleads guilty to fraud
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On June 27, 2005, Muir faxed to the
SBA the 2004 financial statements of
one of the companies, as part of that
company’s annual update. These statements
failed to disclose that bonuses
were paid to Muir and his co-conspirators,
and that their bonuses and other
compensation far exceeded the compensation
paid to the disadvantaged individual.
In fact, between 2002 and 2004,
Muir and his coconspirators received
approximately $900,000 more in bonuses
and salaries than the president of the
company. These salaries and bonuses
were given without the SBA’s knowledge
or approval.
Muir knew that he and the co-conspirators
provided critical bonding,
financial and operational support to the
three companies, and during the course
of the conspiracy, the presidents of two
of the companies submitted fraudulent
annual updates to the SBA in which they
falsely certified that their companies
continued to meet the SBA regulations
related to eligibility, including those
which prohibit financial and operational
control of the firm by a non-disadvantaged
individual.
Muir faces a maximum sentence of
five years in prison, followed by three
years of supervised release. U.S. District
Judge Peter J. Messitte scheduled sentencing
for October 30, 2008.
When a customer left his cell phone in
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Over 18,000 tons
of contaminated
soil removed
from New Jersey
In fewer than six months, the United
States Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) turned an abandoned piece of
property, located just across the street
from private homes in the Ironbound section
of Newark, New Jersey, into a parcel
of land that no longer poses a threat to
the surrounding community. EPA’s
regional administrator, Alan J. Steinberg,
was joined by City of Newark mayor,
Cory Booker, as well as councilman
Augusto Amador at the Tidewater Baling
site, to mark the culmination of EPA’s
cleanup efforts.
“The story of Tidewater Baling conveys
the spirit of EPA’s Superfund program,”
said Steinberg. “In a very short
time, we addressed the immediate threats
at the site and made sure it was safe for
the community; we are now ready to
hand it back to the City of Newark.”
The Tidewater Baling site is a 2.5acre
parcel of land that is mixed in
among industrial facilities, commercial
properties and residences. Sampling
done by EPA at the site revealed elevated
levels of heavy metals, and Polychlorinated
Biphenyls (PCBs) in the soil. Last
March, EPA began a large-scale clean up
of contaminated surface soil at the site
and has spent over $5 million on the
effort. By the end of the clean up,
approximately 15,000 tons of lead-contaminated
soil and 3,000 tons of PCB-contaminated
soil will have been excavated
and removed. The excavated areas have
been backfilled with a one-foot deep
layer of crushed stone. Additionally, EPA
demolished two abandoned buildings
that were on the site, and shipped the
building debris off-site. EPA also dismantled
and shipped off-site remnants of
large metal structures that had been used
in the baling process. EPA will complete
the last of its cleanup work and will hand
this site over to Newark.
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Temple-Inland acquires
Caraustar’s interest in
Indiana boxboard mill
Temple-Inland, Inc. has acquired the
remaining fifty percent interest in Premier
Boxboard Limited LLC (PBL) from
Caraustar Industries, Inc. PBL was a joint
venture between Temple-Inland and
Caraustar. The purchase price for Caraustar’s
interest was $62 million in cash and
assumption of $25 million of debt associated
with the purchased interest.
PBL produces lightweight gypsum
facing paper and containerboard at a
308,000 tons-per-year mill in Newport,
Indiana. Temple-Inland will continue to
produce lightweight gypsum facing
paper and containerboard at the mill.
The lightweight gypsum facing paper
will serve the needs of both Temple-
Inland’s building products operations
and external customers. Containerboard
produced at the mill will be primarily
used by Temple-Inland’s operations.
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partner of PBL since its formation in
1999. Temple-Inland terminated the
marketing and management agreements
by and between PBL and Caraustar.
Marketing and management fees paid by
PBL to Caraustar under these agreements
have been approximately $4 million
annually.
In addition to eliminating the marketing
and management fees paid to
Caraustar, Temple-Inland expects to
realize synergies of approximately $10
million from reducing cost, improving
productivity and optimizing the mix of
product as the mill is fully integrated
into the Temple-Inland mill system.
Temple-Inland will fund the cash
portion of the purchase price through
borrowings under its existing credit
facilities.
International Paper finalizes purchase
of Weyerhaeuser's packaging assets
International Paper has completed the
purchase of the assets of Weyerhaeuser's
Containerboard, Packaging and Recycling
business for approximately $6 billion in
cash, subject to post-closing adjustments.
Because the transaction is a purchase
of assets rather than of stock, International
Paper will realize a tax benefit that has an
estimated net present value of approximately
$1.4 billion.
Carol Roberts, senior vice president
of International Paper’s packaging business,
said she sees considerable upside
potential in the acquisition.
“Weyerhaeuser has low-cost, wellrun
assets that complement our existing
mill and converting system and offer significant
synergies,” she said.
International Paper has identified
profit improvement opportunities of
about $400 million annually from the
acquisition, as a result of reducing duplicate
overhead costs, integrating manufacturing
operations, optimizing product
mix, and improving operational and supply
chain efficiencies. The company
expects to achieve at least 40 percent of
the improvement within 12 months of
completing the transaction. The remainder
is expected to be fully realized by
the end of the third year.
Smurfit-Stone reports second quarter results
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation
reported a second quarter 2008 adjusted
net loss of $31 million, or $0.12 per diluted
share. Results compare to adjusted net
income of $15 million, or $0.06 per share,
in the second quarter 2007 and an adjusted
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kick plates
● Weighing or
metering systems
● Variable speed
drive controls
● Special paint
& coatings
● Load leveling
mechanisms
● Weather enclosures
& galleries
P: 800-521-0424 / 206-682-4051
F: 206-467-6813
www.jamesbrinkley.com
3327 NE 125th Street, Suite 104, Seattle WA 98125
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net loss of $24 million, or $0.09 per share,
in the first quarter 2008.
Sales of $1.8 billion for the second
quarter 2008 were comparable to both the
prior year quarter and first quarter 2008.
Section A Page 25
NEW PRODUCT SHOWCASE
Abanaki Corporation
17387 Munn Road
Chagrin Falls, OH 44023
800-358-7546
www.abanaki.com
ASA Electronics
2602 Marina Drive
Elkhart, IN 46514
800-688-3135
www.asaelectronics.com
Atlas Copco
Construction Tools
94 North Elm Street
Westfield, MA 01085
413-746-0020
www.atlascopco.com
Heil Environmental
Industries
5751 Cornelison Road
Chattanooga, TN 37411
866-367-4345
www.heil.com
Herbold Meckesheim USA
333 George Washington
Smithfield, RI 02917
401-232-3354
www.herboldusa.net
ABANAKI’S NEW ECONOMINI OIL
SKIMMER FITS IN TIGHT PLACES
Abanaki Corporation has added the EconoMini oil
skimmer to its line of oil removal equipment.
The EconoMini is ultra-compact at approximately 4”
x 3” x 4” and weighs 6 pounds.
This is the perfect skimmer to use in tight spaces,
such as on parts-washer tanks and coolant sumps. It
can even be used to skim oil through the 2” opening of
a 55-gallon drum.
EconoMini requires no assembly and little mounting
space. Belts are available in polyurethane or stainless
steel and lengths of 8”, 12”, 18”, and 24”.
ASA OFFERS VOYAGER SUPER
CMOS SIDE VISION CAMERAS
ASA Electronics offers the compact, Voyager ®
Super CMOS Side Vision Cameras which eliminate
blind spots that surround larger vehicles.
The Voyager Super CMOS cameras consist of a
cylindrical camera enclosed in a waterproof, impactresistant
plastic housing.
The housings come in chrome finish or gray
(paintable) primer to blend in with any vehicle exterior.
They feature 102° horizontal viewing angles, which
allow drivers to see 3 and 4 lanes over without losing
sight of the truck body/trailer, and have a mirrored
(reversed) image orientation.
ATLAS COPCO’S NEW HYDRAULIC
DEMOLITION ATTACHMENT
Atlas Copco Construction Tools LLC introduced the
CC 2500. The attachment offers faster jaw replacement,
enhanced stability and shorter cycle times.
Both universal jaws and steel-cutting jaws are available
for the CC 2500. Opening to a width of 34.6 inches,
the universal jaws are ideal for heavily reinforced
concrete demolition, building demolition, secondary
reduction and material separation. The steel-cutting
jaws open 16.8 inches wide and are suited for steel
structure demolition, secondary reduction and material
separation. Both jaws deliver a maximum cutting
force of 330 tons.
HEIL’S NEW VERSION OF FRONT
LOADERS AID IN SAVING FUEL
Heil Environmental has made improvements to their
line of Half/Pack front loaders by upgrading the standard
hydraulic pump offering from a gear pump to a
single vane pump.
Vane pumps provide a number of benefits, including
efficiency increases of up to 20 percent, lower system
temperatures, and reduced fuel consumption.
The vane pump’s internal cartridge can be replaced
without removing the entire pump from the truck.
The Heil Half/Pack front loader offers payloads up
to 1,200 lbs. per cubic yard, and a packer cycle time of
22 to 26 seconds.
HERBOLD OFFERS WASH LINE
EQUIPMENT FOR PLASTICS
Herbold Meckesheim USA introduces hot water
wash line systems for recycling plastics. Systems are
customized to each application and consist of any or
all of the following: debalers, granulators, washers,
shredders, separators, and dryers. As plastics recycling
becomes more complicated due to increasing
volumes, contamination, new sorting procedures,
automation, newly accepted types of plastic, etc., Herbold
anticipates the needs of all plastics recycling
facilities, whether they are processing soda bottles,
car bumpers, or anything else.

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GLASS
Glass recycler wins
environmental award
The California Resource Recovery
Association (CRRA) named Vetrazzo,
makers of the original recycled glass
countertop surface, winner of their annual
“Outstanding Closing the Loop Commitment”
award. It is awarded for the
implementation of an innovative program
or creation of a product containing
a high recycled content.
Vetrazzo uses 100 percent recycled
glass to manufacture a surfacing material
that is a sustainable alternative to
granite and other quarried stone. In
2008, Vetrazzo expects to recycle 1,600
tons of waste glass from sources as
diverse as California Refund Value glass
bottles, building demolition and misshaped
or rejected bottles and jars from
manufacturers.
“A single panel of Vetrazzo can use
up to 1,000 bottles,” remarked James
Sheppard, president of Vetrazzo. “We like
to say there is a ‘story in every surface’
and to help tell that story we provide a
‘Certificate of Transformation’ with each
panel so the owner will know the source
of the glass in their countertop.”
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ELECTRONICS
Dell shows strong support for e-recycling
As environmental awareness and
impact among individual consumers and
business customers continues to grow,
greater demands are now being placed
on manufacturers to promote recycling
and to reduce their environmental footprint.
For Dell Inc., a major computer
manufacturer, this consumer awareness
is shaping corporate policy in terms of
dealing with increasing amounts of ewaste
on a state and national basis, and
helping to better define the term “producer
responsibility”.
Manufacturing a computer requires
energy inputs ranging from the manufacturing
of parts and assembly to the
transport of the parts and finished product,
as well the printed materials and
packaging for the unit and various materials.
“Our basic policy is that we’ll recycle
anything with a Dell brand on it for
free at any time – no additional purchase
required,” says Bryant Hilton, Dell’s
corporate responsibility communications
manager. “We’ll come to a customer’s
site and take the equipment
back. Under the same program, if somebody
is purchasing a new Dell computer
and has an old computer that is not made
by Dell, we’ll take that back for free.
“In 2007, we collected 102 million
pounds of equipment from customers – a
20 percent increase over 2006,” he adds.
“We hope to set a new bar in 2008. We
collected 78 million pounds (nearly
40,000 tons) of unwanted informationtechnology
equipment from customers in
2006, a 93 percent
increase over
2005.”
For individual
consumers,
recycling is free,
but this differs for
commercial and
institutional customers
who usual-
—Bryant Hilton
ly purchase a
value-added service to cover the cost of
reverse logistics to collect equipment
from different locations, have hard
drives (HD) erased on-site or to provide
full reporting.
Companies and institutions asking
Dell to recycle their equipment could
also receive a financial benefit.
“We include value recovery,” says
Hilton. “Often when a business retires
their equipment, it is going to be newer
and there is a good chance that either as
a system or as parts, the equipment has
value on the secondary market. If a customer
wants, we’ll do the refurbishment,
sell it and return those proceeds to them.
If managed correctly, they can get cash
back.”
Additional benefits for companies,
says Hilton, include the data wipes on
hard drives to remove data, the avoidance
of improperly disposing of electronics
and the freeing up of office space
housing older equipment.
As well, for charitable purposes,
Dell is able to help companies donate
equipment to NGOs and schools through
the aid of the National Cristina Founda-
tion (www.cristina.org), an organization
that matches computers with non-profit
organizations.
“They’ll match a consumer’s donated
used computer with a non-profit that
needs a new system and this allows the
donation to stay local,” says Bryant.
“The NCF is a partner on the business
side and we can custom work with them
for that purpose.”
For Dell, this policy helps to establish
a thriving secondary market for
complete systems and parts, which
extends the lifespan of electronics components,
creates value for these items,
helps to ensure proper maintenance and
further delays the possibility of e-waste
possibly ending up in landfills.
Dell’s Reconnect Program, a free
drop-off program to recycle unwanted
computers with Goodwill Industries
International, is critical to recycling
electronics.
“The free recycling for consumers
all involves trying things to make it as
convenient as possible for consumers,”
says Hilton. “Some find the drop-off
more convenient than the home pickup.
This is how we started working with
Goodwill and it is based on accepted
consumer behavior – if you have gently
used goods that you don’t need anymore,
but have value, you just give it to
Goodwill. It seemed natural to work
computers into their process and it has
worked very well.”
Dell’s connection to Goodwill
began in the Austin, Texas in 2004.
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Dell recycling
Continued from Page 26
“Ideally consumers have a choice
where Reconnect is available,” says
Hilton. “They can bring their old computer
to Goodwill and know that it is going to be
well recycled and support the community.”
The goals of the Reconnect Program
for the Goodwill Western New York are to:
Offer consumers free recycling for
any brand of computer equipment in any
condition. Residents can find a drop-off
location at www.reconnectpartnership.com
or www.goodwillwny.org.
Divert over 450,000 pounds of used
computers and equipment from area landfills
over the next year; and provide consumer
education on the importance of
environmentally-responsible computer
disposal. Reconnect also can help create
job opportunities for individuals with disabilities
and other employment barriers.
The goals for the Reconnect program
in the greater Rochester area – www.abvigoodwill.org,
started on July 3, are similar
and include:
To divert over 300,000 pounds of
used computers and computer equipment
over the next year.
ABVI-Goodwill accepting and sorting
the donated computer equipment and
Dell’s product recovery partner will recycle
and remarket the recycled materials.
All proceeds support programs and job
opportunities at ABVI-Goodwill for people
who are blind or visually impaired.
Cities and areas with Reconnect programs
include Austin (15 counties in Central
Texas), San Antonio (23 counties in
Central and South Texas), Houston (15
counties), San Francisco (Marin, San
Francisco and San Mateo counties), San
Diego County, North Carolina (49 counties),
Pittsburgh, Northern New Jersey,
Northwest Ohio and locations throughout
Michigan.
Concerns are growing about the
export of e-waste to developing countries.
Dell appreciates these concerns and has
taken steps to prevent this from happening.
“Regardless of the path of where it
comes in, the material goes to a recycler
that we authorize and all of our recyclers
world wide have one set of standards that
cover workplace and environmental
requirements,” says Hilton. “One of the
key elements is that there are absolutely no
exports of e-waste or landfilling of anything
environmentally sensitive. If waste is
going to a developing nation where it is
going to cause environmental harm, that is
creating more of a problem.”
While Dell did not disclose the cost
of its various programs and partnerships
with Goodwill, Hilton says “we’ve made a
significant investment in recycling programs.
For recycling in general there are
no incentives. If anything, the mandated
requirements to recycle are growing, especially
at the state level. There’s a cost to
complying with those mandates and we
find that programs such as our nationwide
free recycling with home pick-up and
Reconnect, where available, are helping
minimize the costs to Dell of that compliance.”
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The Home Depot has launched a
national in-store, consumer compact fluorescent
light (CFL) bulb recycling program
at all 1,973 The Home Depot locations.
This free service is the first such
offering made so widely available by a
retailer in the United States and offers
customers additional options for making
environmentally conscious decisions
from purchase to disposal. The Home
Depot Canada launched a CFL recycling
program in November, 2007.
At each The Home Depot store,
customers can simply bring in any
expired, unbroken CFL bulbs, and give
them to the store associate behind the
returns desk. The bulbs will then be
managed responsibly by an environmental
management company who will
coordinate CFL packaging, transportation
and recycling to maximize safety
and ensure environmental compliance.
In addition to the CFL recycling
program, The Home Depot has also
launched an in-store energy conservation
program to switch light fixture
showrooms in United States stores from
ELECTRONICS
The Home Depot launches
CFL bulb recycling initiative
incandescent bulbs to CFLs by fall 2008
and save $16 million annually in energy
costs.
The CFL recycling program is an
extension of The Home Depot’s Eco
Options program. Eco Options,
launched in April 2007, is a classification
that allows customers to easily
identify products that have less of an
impact on the environment.
Switching from traditional light
bulbs to CFLs is an easy change consumers
can make to reduce energy use at
home. According to the EPA’s Energy
Star Program, if every American
switched out one incandescent bulb to a
CFL, it would prevent more than $600
million in annual energy costs and prevent
greenhouse gases equivalent to the
emissions from 800,000 cars. As the
largest retailer of light bulbs in the country,
The Home Depot sold over 75 million
CFLs in 2007, which saved Americans
approximately $4.8 billion in energy
costs and 51.8 billion pounds in CO2
greenhouse gases over the life of the
bulbs.
Section A Page 27
RBRC expands
battery program
Nickel Zinc rechargeable
batteries now accepted
through Call2Recycle
The Rechargeable Battery Recycling
Corporation (RBRC) has expanded
its rechargeable battery collection program
for the first time in seven years to
encompass a new chemistry, Nickel Zinc
(Ni-Zn). Ni-Zn is now the fifth rechargeable
chemistry recognized by RBRC,
joining Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel
Metal-Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium-ion
(Li-ion) and Small Sealed Lead (Pb)
rechargeable batteries.
PowerGenix, a manufacturer of
rechargeable Ni-Zn batteries, has
become the first manufacturer of Ni-Zn
technology to become involved in
RBRC’s Call2Recycle program.
The Ni-Zn rechargeable batteries
will be branded with an RBRC Battery
Recycling Seal, letting consumers and
businesses know that they may be
recycled at more than 50,000 RBRC
collection sites in the United States and
Canada.
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INTERNATIONAL
Gold medals and green
restrooms at the Olympics
While athletes aimed for gold, the
Beijing Olympics aimed for green with
waterfree urinals. The urinals from Los
Angeles-based Falcon Waterfree Technologies
have been installed at several
Olympic venues.
Falcon Waterfree urinals were
installed and used by the general public,
staff and athletes at the National Stadium,
the National Swimming Center, the
Olympic Torch Relay Route, the Olympic
Triathlon Track, the Olympic Security
Control Center, the Olympic Water Sports
Fields and Stadiums, and the BMX Contest
Field.
The green-technology urinals use a
patented cartridge to provide waterfree,
odor-free and trouble-free operation.
Because they are not attached to a water
supply, they do not become a source of
plumbing emergencies. Restrooms are also
cleaner as a result because these systems
have five times fewer bacteria than waterflushed
urinals and no flush plumes, which
normally spread bacteria-laden moisture
around restrooms.
Water conservation at the Beijing
Olympics has been a key requirement —
not only to showcase modern and sustainable
technology, but to also help the city of
18 million people accommodate the additional
needs of Olympic visitors and athletes.
Based on average water savings of
40,000 gallons per urinal, per year, the 165
waterfree urinals will save 6.6 million gallons
per year — enough to fill more than
1,400 tank trucks.
New Zealand government boosts
funds for contaminated sites
Four contaminated sites in New
Zealand will receive $150,000 from the
Government’s clean-up fund, according to
Environment Minister Trevor Mallard. The
allocations are the first from the Ministry
for the Environment’s Contaminated Sites
Remediation Fund this year. A total of
$890,000 of the $3.28 million annual fund
is contestable by regional councils and
unitary authorities through two application
rounds per year.
“These contaminated sites need to be
cleaned up for the sake of communities
and the environment all around New
Zealand, and the Government is pleased to
be able to partner councils in getting the
job done,” said Trevor Mallard.
“Six applications were received this
time, and four extremely worthy proposals
were chosen. Two have previously
received money from the Fund and it is
great to see the relationship with the councils
involved is working well.”
Canterbury: Just over $100,000 in
this funding round goes towards Environment
Canterbury’s site investigation of the
“Bankside” pit, a former World War II fuel
tank site that has become an illegal dump.
Otago: About $10,000 goes towards
Otago Regional Council’s remedial action
plan for the third stage of the former Barrow
Box sawmill site.
Bay of Plenty: Environment Bay of
Plenty gets $14,000 for its clean-up plan
for the Omokoroa Boatyard site where
contaminated material is leaching into the
valued estuary.
Nelson-Tasman: Nelson and Tasman
councils are to receive about $31,000
towards joint investigations of sheep dips
on numerous farms to determine the nature
and extent of possible contamination.
“While the Government has prioritized
the funding of large scale clean-ups,
it’s important that smaller projects also get
help from the Fund,” said Trevor Mallard.
Zero Waste Philippines launched —
geared towards cheap green energy
Spectrum Blue Steel Corporation
launched the Blueprint for Zero Waste
Philippines with the signing of a memorandum
of agreement with Morong, Rizal
Mayor Joseph Buenaventura for the establishment
of a pilot Biosphere Gasification
Power Plant.
Morong, Rizal is a small town with a
population of only 52,000 people and
10,000 households. It is the site of a fortyhectare
sanitary landfill which takes
almost 8,000 tons of garbage daily from
cities in Metro Manila.
Ronald Shane Flynn, president of
Spectrum Blue Steel Corporation,
announced that initially, a 1,200 MSW
Biosphere facility shall be installed, generating
approximately 600 to 700 MW of
green energy per day. The generated green
energy shall be sold to electric distribution
cooperatives at lower prices.
That indigenous source of energy is
fast gaining attention from the Arroyo
administration and with local executives
nationwide.
Flynn has committed to facilitate
Philippines’ energy sectors transition to a
sustainable system with renewable energy
as an increasingly prominent viable and
competitive fuel option.
The Biosphere process is a gasification
which was developed by Dr. Chris
McCormack. The process begins with
waste delivered to the Biosphere Chamber
being converted into clean combustible
gas referred to as “syngas”. The syngas is
used to produce electricity in a combined
cycle gas/steam turbine. The heat generated
can be used to produce electricity, to
superheat steam or to heat boiler-feed
water.

American Recycler, September 2008
Changes proposed for exemptions
of environmental permitting in UK
Proposed changes to the system of
environmental permit exemptions will
increase waste recovery and recycling,
while maintaining high levels of environmental
protection and saving businesses
money, according to Joan Ruddock,
environment minister said.
Defra, the Welsh Assembly Government
(WAG) and the Environment
Agency are reviewing which waste handling
businesses can operate under
exemptions, and which require a permit.
An exemption allows certain waste
management activities to be carried out
without an environmental permit (formerly
known as a Waste Management
Licence). Exemptions do not free an
operator from regulatory control, but
provide a proportionate level of regulation
for low risk activities which do not
pollute the environment or pose a risk to
human health.
Joan Ruddock said: “Environmental
permits are an essential tool in protecting
the environment from the impacts of
waste, but the system must be fair, simple
and proportionate to risk. The
changes we are proposing in the consultation
we have published deliver all
Hazardous waste
facility built
China— Dalian Dongtai Industrial
Waste Treatment Company, a subsidiary of
China Industrial Waste Management, Inc.,
began the construction of a newlydesigned
Centralized Hazardous Waste
Treatment Facility.
The US$16 million, 633,956 sq. ft.
facility is expected to be in full operation
by the second half of 2009.
The project is sponsored by the State
Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA)
as part of a national plan to construct 55
hazardous waste treatment centers in key
locations throughout China.
Upon completion, the facility will
include a new hazardous waste incinerator,
which will have an annual capacity of
9,000 tons. The new incinerator is
designed by the Japanese company Takuma
Co., Ltd. and will replace Dongtai’s
current incinerator.
The new incinerator is specially
equipped with a tail gas cleansing system
and an online monitoring system in order
to ensure all emissions are in compliance
with environmental standards.
those things. Our estimate is that they
will also offer real savings for some
businesses by cutting red tape and making
waste management more efficient,
which could be as much as £45m over
three years.”
The review will be of interest to any
business recycling, re-using or disposing
of any kind of waste. Most businesses
currently operating under an exemption
will continue to do so, but under the new
proposals businesses may need to renew
and re-register their exemptions more
frequently to ensure waste registers are
up to date. Some businesses that have
previously operated under a waste
exemption may now need to apply for a
permit, while those with an Environmental
Permit may be able to register an
exemption. It is proposed that the cost
to the Environment Agency of regulating
the system will be met through a charge
for the registration of all exempt waste
operations.
The consultation is open through
October 23, 2008. To participate, visit
www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/m
anagement/exemptions.
London makes
progress on waste
London— Moves to cut waste,
increase recycling, and reduce landfill
are continuing to deliver results, according
to the latest figures.
The provisional municipal waste
statistics show that the efforts of local
authorities and householders are paying
off.
Municipal waste includes household
waste and recycling, as well as waste
from parks, public gardens, beaches,
civic amenity sites and clearance of fly
tips. The latest findings, which cover the
period from October to December last
year, include:
Household waste has gone down -
from 25.8m to 25.6m tons;
Less waste has gone to landfill -
down from 16.9 to 15.8m tons;
Recycled household waste is up -
now at 33.9 percent; and
Municipal waste is down overall -
from 29.1m to 28.8m tons.
Final figures will be available as
part of the annual National Statistics to
be released in November 2008.
Magnum acquires facility in Canada
Magnum D’Or Resources, Inc.
announced that they have executed a lease
with the option to purchase a 98,000 sq. ft.
facility in Magog, Quebec, Canada.
The facility is comprised of a 98,000+
sq. ft. mixed-use building located on
approximately 10 acres of land in Magog,
Canada. Magnum will also produce ultra
fine rubber powders, EPDM powders,
EPDM compounds, thermoplastics, and
thermoplastics elastomers at the plant.
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Magnum has received substantial
support in its efforts in locating the facility
in Magog from the Royal Bank of Canada,
as well as the Local, Federal, and Provincial
Governing Bodies.
Magnum is currently in negotiations
for funding that includes grants, project
funding, and financial assistance offered
by the Ville de Magog and other government
programs offered by both the Quebec
and Canadian governments.
Section A Page 29
INTERNATIONAL
WRAP research shows four
main barriers to recycling
New research from the Waste &
Resources Action Programme (WRAP)
has found four main barriers which prevent
people from recycling. The study
outlines a series of simple steps to help
local authorities overcome these barriers.
In the last 10 years, recycling rates have
increased from 7 to 33 percent and twothirds
of English households are now
committed recyclers. This study shows
there is great potential for those numbers
to go higher if barriers can be overcome.
The study found that the four
main barriers are:
Physical: when containers for collecting
recycling are unsuitable; when
there is no space for storage, when collections
are unreliable; when people
have no way of getting to recycling sites
Behavioral: if people are too busy;
if they struggle with establishing a routine
for sorting out recycling; if they forget
to put it out
Lack of knowledge: not knowing
which materials can be recycled; not
understanding how their local scheme
works
Attitudes and perceptions: not
believing recycling is good for the environment;
not wanting to sort waste; not
feeling personally rewarded for recycling
WRAP found that very different
messages and actions are needed by
local authorities to overcome these barriers.
These will include improving recycling
collection services, providing better
information and practical advice on
how to use the service.
WRAP commissioned the research
in autumn 2007 to get a more in-depth
understanding of what stops residents
from recycling or causes them to recycle
less than they could. It involved a survey
of 1,512 householders from a sample of
nine local authorities in England, regionally
representative and covering three
different types of recycling scheme.
Significantly, for current recyclers
(94 percent of the sample), there were
significant barriers that prevented them
recycling as much as they could.
Situational barriers: 52 percent of
current recyclers said they would recycle
more if they had collections of a wider
range of materials.
Behavioral barriers: 48 percent of
current recyclers still binned things
because they were not sure they could be
recycled.
Knowledge and understanding: less
than half the sample (48 percent) understood
“very well” what they were supposed
to use their recycling containers for.
Attitudes: 86 percent of recyclers
would be encouraged to recycle more by
seeing the practical impact of their recycling
in their local area.
Letting the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back in.

Section A Page 30 American Recycler, September 2008
Events
Calendar
October 20th-21st
75th Annual Meeting of the Aluminum
Association. The Greenbrier, White Sulphur
Springs, West Virginia.
703-358-2975 • www.aluminum.org
October 21st-25th
ARA 65th Annual Convention &
Exposition. Hyatt Regency Crown Center,
Kansas City, Missouri.
888-385-1005 • www.a-r-a.org
October 21st-23rd
Wastecon 2008. Tampa Bay Convention
Center, Tampa, Florida.
800-467-9262 • www.wastecon.swana.org
October 26th-29th
The 2008 National Renewable Energy
Marketing Conference. Marriott City Center,
Denver, Colorado. 415-561-2135
www.renewableenergymarketing.net
October 28th-29th
NERC’s Fall 2008 Conference. Hotel
Northampton, Northampton, Massachusetts.
802-254-3636 • www.nerc.org
November 1st-3rd
APRA’s 2008 International BIG R Show.
Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada.
703-968-2772 • www.bigrshow.com
November 6th-8th
International Autobody Congress &
Exposition. Mandalay Bay Convention
Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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American LaFrance exits
bankruptcy
American LaFrance, LLC emerged
successfully from its Chapter 11 bankruptcy
effective July 24, 2008. Concurrent
with its emergence from bankruptcy,
American LaFrance has announced a
significant restructure of its business and
a transformation of organization,
processes and a segregation of facilities
to better serve its product lines in
domestic and global markets.
In a major effort to improve profitability,
timely delivery and to create
room for soon to be announced new ventures,
the fire business will be moved
from Summerville, South Carolina to the
American LaFrance facilities in Ephrata,
Pennsylvania and Hamburg, New York
according to American LaFrance. Summerville
will remain the center of excellence
for commercial cab and chassis
models, including chassis manufactured
for the fire, refuse and construction markets
(street sweepers, refuse haulers, concrete
pumpers, etc.).
Schnitzer acquires three
auto parts businesses
Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.
announced that its Auto Parts Business has
acquired three self-service used auto parts
businesses located in Little Rock,
Arkansas and San Antonio, Texas.
Schnitzer purchased the assets and
business of U-Pull-It Auto Parts, Inc., U-
Pull-It Jacksonville, Inc., and Roosevelt U-
Pull-It, Inc., which were previously owned
and operated by Gary Johnson.
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BUSINESS BRIEFS
Universal Package names
new general manager
Universal Package Systems
announced the promotion of Jonathan
Brandes to the position of general manager.
Brandes has been with the company
for the past three years, previously
holding a sales position with the fastgrowing
company.
His new responsibilities include
maintaining and improving customer
relations, new business development,
and plant and warehouse supervision.
Previously, Brandes worked with
Tecumseh Corrugated Box Company,
working as head designer, before moving
into sales with the company. He also
spent time with The Servants Incorporated,
a paper sheet plant, where he gained
experience as a sample maker.
ArcelorMittal acquires
Rolanfer Recyclage
ArcelorMittal announces it has
acquired the outstanding 60 percent of
the shares in Rolanfer Recyclage S.A.
(Rolanfer), which now gives it 100 percent
control over the company.
Rolanfer is based in Yutz (France)
near Thionville on the border with Luxembourg
and operates a shredder at the
port of Illange. Rolanfer specializes in
the processing and recycling of scrap
metal products including incinerated
scrap, shredded scrap, and demolition
scrap.
The bulk of its production is delivered
to ArcelorMittal sites in Luxembourg.
This acquisition will assist in
securing the supply of scrap metal to
ArcelorMittal operations in the region.
In 2007, Rolanfer’s gross turnover
was US$20.6 million and it shipped
approximately 86,000 tons of scrap metal
for the year. Rolanfer currently employs
24 staff and its new managing director is
David Iroz.
AF&PA chooses director
of communications
The American Forest & Paper Association
(AF&PA) announced that Scott
Milburn has been named executive
director of AF&PA Strategic Communications.
Milburn will coordinate
AF&PA’s communication outreach to
industry, policy and opinion leaders, and
the media.
Milburn has a background in state
and federal government, as well as public
affairs consulting. He most recently
served as vice president in the issues
management practice of APCO Worldwide.
Milburn has an extensive background
in public policy communication, having
served as press secretary in the White
House Office of Management and Budget
under directors Joshua Bolten and Rob
Portman, and as senior communication
advisor to members of the U.S. Senate and
House of Representatives, as well as a
governor. In all of these positions he
worked closely on energy and environmental
policy, as well as other issues central
to manufacturing and agriculture.
Veolia selects Chicago for
new headquarters
Veolia Environnement has selected
Chicago as its new North American
headquarters for the company’s four
operational groups.
The company has signed a lease for
34,500 sq. ft. of space in Aon Center
(200 East Randolph Street).
Veolia Environnement’s North
American headquarters will house
approximately 60 executive managers
and administrative personnel from four
operational groups focused on water
services and technologies, waste services,
energy and facility management, and
passenger transportation.
Harsco receives 10-year
contract from steel plant
Harsco Corporation announced that
its worldwide mill services division has
been awarded a new ten-year contract
valued at more than $60 million over its
duration to provide on-site environmental
services to ArcelorMittal’s Dunkirk
steel works in northern France.
Harsco’s award includes the construction
of a new dehydrating plant that
will process the mill’s blast furnace and
melt shop sludge by-products into
reusable filter cake material suitable for
use within the steelmaking process, as
well as other external applications. The
award also includes the screening and
blending of various by-product materials
for on-site recycling to the mill’s sinter
plant, which produces materials for
charging the mill’s three blast furnaces.
Work is scheduled to commence at the
beginning of 2009.
IronPlanet reports record
second quarter in 2008
IronPlanet posted record sales in the
second quarter of 2008, with gross auction
sales of $91.3 million - an increase
of 37 percent over the second quarter of
2007. This year’s second quarter represents
a 17 percent growth over the first
quarter of 2008. The company’s year-todate
performance of $168.9 million is a
70 percent increase over the same period
in 2007.
In the second quarter, IronPlanet
drew an average of 14,000 visitors per
auction, an increase of 35 percent over
the second quarter of 2007.
Lovejoy appoints new
torsional product manager
Lovejoy, Inc. announced the
appointment of Greg Taylor as torsional
product manager.
Taylor’s role is to oversee the marketing,
engineering, coordination, and sales
efforts for Lovejoy’s wide range of torsional
couplings. He works directly with
distributors and original equipment manager
accounts. At Lovejoy, Taylor’s goals
are to develop innovative products and to
grow the torsional products market.
Prior to Lovejoy, Taylor worked as
an application manager for Power Great
Lakes, Inc. in Wood Dale, Illinois.

American Recycler, September 2008
China Recycling Energy
appoints new CFO
China Recycling Energy Corp.
announced the appointment of Xinyu
Peng as chief financial officer, effective
immediately.
Peng joins CREG from the Asia
offices of Tavistock Group, a global private
equity firm. While at Tavistock
Group (Asia), Peng was a vice president
engaged in investment and financing in
Greater China. In the past five years,
Peng held CFO positions at Mod3 Cabinets
& Home LLC in Tampa, Florida, a
manufacturer of wood kitchen cabinets,
and at Creative Hospitality Concepts
LLC in Tampa, Florida. From 2002 to
2003, Peng was CFO and chief representative
of Sino Agri-Tech Inc., under Asia
Capital Group.
Total Resource Auctions
acquires auction pool
Total Resource Auctions’ president,
Jamie Porter, announced the acquisition
of the Texas-based Central Cities Auction
Pool business assets and operations.
This move expands Total Resource Auctions’
national footprint to 56 locations,
including five in Texas.
Central Cities Auction Pool president
Carroll Estes will continue to run
the operation with his wife, Annette, and
son, Chad.
Central Cities Auction Pool will
continue to offer AIMS Software to customers
and run its operating system. In
addition, Central Cities Auction Pool will
host, manage and maintain AIMS Net.
Brookfield invests in safer
recycling technology
Brookfield Resource Management,
Inc. has invested in an upgrade of its fluid
evacuation systems. The upgrade makes
Brookfield’s Elmsford, New York, recycling
facility cleaner, safer and more efficient
th anks to new equipment that safely
collects and stores fluids from end-of-life
vehicles.
Brookfield is the first recycling facility
in the state of New York to utilize the
specialized equipment capable of collecting
nearly all types of automotive fluids.
The Seda-Easy Drain, manufactured by
Seda Environmental, is a system that uses
compressed air to remove virtually all fluids
in a safe and efficient manner. All of
the vehicle fluids are pumped into dedicated
recovery tanks and recycled.
Brookfield’s new fluid containment
system has huge environmental benefits.
The updated process prevents spills and
cross-contamination of vehicle fluids.
An English teacher often wrote little
notes on student essays. Often she
worked late, and as the hours passed,
her handwriting deteriorated.
One day a student came to her after
class with an essay that had been
returned. "I can't make out this comment
you wrote on my paper."
The teacher took the paper and, after
studying it, sheepishly replied, "It says
that you should write more legibly!"
Chuck Schott advances
at Smurfit-Stone
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation
has named Chuck Schott central
region vice president of manufacturing
for the company’s container division.
Schott joined Smurfit-Stone in 1984
as a production employee at the company’s
Fargo, North Dakota box plant and
has served in a variety of sales and sales
management roles throughout his career.
He most recently served as area sales
manager for the container division’s
Lake Superior area.
Schott replaces John Yoder, who was
recently named the division’s vice president
of manufacturing services.
New distributor for
Badger Shredding named
Badger Shredding Products Inc.,
located in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin,
announced that Heavy Machines Inc. has
been signed up to represent the Badger
Shredding line of Shredding Equipment
in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Georgia, Florida, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Tennessee.
Neenah Enterprises
acquires Morgan’s Welding
Neenah Enterprises, Inc. and
Neenah Foundry Company announced
that a newly-created, wholly-owned subsidiary
of the Company has purchased
substantially all of the business and
assets of Morgan’s Welding, Inc., a steel
fabricator located in Pennsylvania, for a
cash purchase price of $3.85 million,
plus the assumption of approximately
$0.3 million of current liabilities, subject
to a working capital adjustment. Upon
closing, the new subsidiary changed its
name to Morgan’s Welding, Inc.
The purchase was financed through
borrowings under the Company’s existing
credit facility.
The Company expects this acquisition
to significantly improve its ability to
service customers in the municipal markets
in the Northeastern United States by
allowing it to package fabricated steel
gratings with its iron casting products,
thus offering a more complete array of
street drainage products to the marketplace.
Nucor to install a plate
heat treating facility
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Nucor Corporation plans to install a
plate heat treating facility at its plate
mill in Hertford County, North Carolina.
The heat treat line will have an estimated
annual capacity of 120,000 tons and will
have the ability to produce heat treated
plate from 3/16” through 2” thick. Total
cost of the project is expected to be
approximately $110 million.
Nucor’s plate mill in Hertford
County, North Carolina, has an annual
capacity of approximately 1.6 million
tons. Combined with Nucor’s plate mill
located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Nucor’s
current annual plate production capacity
is approximately 2.8 million tons.
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Sukut Construction hires
geotechnical expert
Sukut Construction Inc., announced
the hiring of Ron Bane, a recognized
expert in geotechnical construction. He
will lead the company’s expansion into the
growing field of seismic retrofitting and
ground reinforcement of the nation’s aging
infrastructure, including dams and levees.
Bane is one of the few experienced
geotechnical project managers in the field,
and his arrival positions Sukut to join a
handful of companies nationwide, capable
of meeting the need for infrastructure
retrofit, highlighted most recently by the
2005 breach of levees in New Orleans during
Hurricane Katrina and the current
Midwest flooding crisis along the Mississippi
River.
Bane initially will focus on Sukut’s
$54.6 million contract to seismically retrofit
the San Pablo Dam in Contra Costa
County, California. As senior construction
and quality control manager, Bane will be
in charge of the two-year project.
Bane comes to Sukut from the
American subsidiary of a Japanese geotechnical
firm. His recent projects included
seismic upgrades of two dams in
South Carolina, and an underground
seepage control retrofitting of the Waterbury
Dam in Waterbury, Vermont, both
sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers. Bane has managed construction
and quality control for more than
200 major earthwork projects and has 10
years of experience in deep-ground
improvement, including the cement deep
soil mixing that will be performed on the
San Pablo Dam retrofitting.
Section A Page 31
Advanced Disposal
acquires Attaway Waste
Advanced Disposal Services based in
Jacksonville, Florida, has acquired Attaway
Waste Services, a Milledgeville,
Georgia-based business.
This acquisition will add customers
and bridges the gap between adjacent
markets in Augusta and Macon, Georgia.
Attaway has collection and transfer operations
in six Georgia counties. “By consolidating
operations between the I-20
and I-16 corridors, Advanced Disposal is
better prepared to meet the solid waste
collection and disposal needs of the state
for many years to come,” says Wally
Hall, president and chief operating officer
of Advanced Disposal.
RockTenn's CEO named
2008 CEO of the Year
RockTenn Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer Jim Rubright has been
selected as this year’s RISI North American
CEO of the Year for the forest products
industry.
Each year, RISI surveys investment
analysts and portfolio managers to make
nominations for the award, based on
such criteria as leadership, vision and
strategic accomplishment.
The 2008 award will be presented to
Rubright on September 15th at the 23rd
North American Forest Products Conference
in Boston, Massachusetts. Rubright
will also deliver the keynote address and
participate in a CEO Panel at the event.

Section A Page 32 American Recycler, September 2008
Norcal Waste appoints
new board member
Dennis Wu has joined the board of
directors of Norcal Waste Systems, Inc.,
headquartered in San Francisco.
Wu, who retired in March 2008 as
executive vice president and chief financial
officer of UCBH Holdings, Incorporated
(UCBH), currently serves as a
director of UCBH.
Wu joined UCBH after a thirtyseven
year career with the public
accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche
LLP, where he served as national managing
partner of the firm’s Chinese Services
Group since June 2000. Wu served as
a partner at Deloitte & Touch LLP from
1979 to 2004, including the partner-incharge
of the firm’s Enterprise Group of
Northern California.
Sapa’s Jack Miller elected
to association board
Jack Miller, president, Sapa North
America Extrusions, Inc., has been
elected to the board of directors of The
Aluminum Association.
Miller began his career with Alcoa
at its Tennessee operations. He held various
positions with Alcoa in both the
rolling and extruding businesses, including
general manager of Alcoa’s Europe
Extrusions and End Products. He joined
Sapa in 2007 as president, North America,
headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
CMC sells $500,000,000
of senior unsecured notes
Commercial Metals Company
(CMC), headquartered in Irving, Texas,
announced that it has sold $500 million
principal amount of senior unsecured
notes due 2018. The notes have a coupon
rate of 7.35 percent and were sold at the
offering price of $998.28 for each $1,000
of principal to yield 7.374 percent to maturity.
In anticipation of the offering, CMC
entered into a hedge transaction based on
then existing Treasury rates, which had the
effect of reducing the Company’s effective
interest rate cost on the notes to approximately
7.29 percent. The notes were
assigned a Baa2 rating by Moody’s
Investors Service, Inc. and Standard &
Poor’s assigned a BBB rating.
The Company intends to use the net
proceeds from the offering to repay its
6.75 percent notes due February 15,
2009, to repay commercial paper, including
that incurred to fund the purchase
price of recently completed acquisitions,
to fund the purchase price of future
acquisitions and for general corporate
purposes.
Schnitzer Steel declares
quarterly dividend
The board of directors of Schnitzer
Steel Industries, Inc. declared a cash dividend
of $0.017 per common share,
payable on September 2, 2008, to shareholders
of record on August 18, 2008.
Schnitzer has paid a dividend every quarter
since going public in November 1993.
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Thermo Fisher receives
R&D 100 award
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.
announced that is has been awarded the
R&D 100 Award for technological innovation.
An independent judging panel and
the editors of R&D Magazine selected
the handheld Thermo Scientific Niton
XL3t XRF analyzer as one of the 100
most technologically significant products
introduced into the marketplace
over the past year.
This is the third R&D 100 Award
for the Niton series, with previous
awards coming in 1995 and 2003.
Since they were established in 1963,
the R&D 100 awards have been presented
annually to the 100 most innovative
new technical products and processes of
the year. More than 50 outside judges are
chosen from among professional consultants,
university faculty and industrial
researchers. Based on the outside judges’
votes and written comments, the editors
of R&D Magazine make the final choice.
DiMicco appointed to
manufacturing council
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Nucor Corporation chairman, president
and chief executive officer Daniel
R. DiMicco has been appointed to the
United States Manufacturing Council by
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M.
Gutierrez.
The Manufacturing Council was
established to ensure regular communication
between the federal government
and manufacturing sector. The newly
appointed council consists of 14 privatesector
executives who reflect the diversity
of industry in company size and geography.
DiMicco has been president and
chief executive officer of Nucor Corporation
since 2000.
Waste Connections to buy
Harold LeMay Enterprises
Waste Connections, Inc. has entered
into an agreement to acquire Harold
LeMay Enterprises, Incorporated.
LeMay is the largest privatelyowned
solid waste services company in
the Pacific Northwest with total annual
revenue of approximately $100 million.
LeMay provides solid waste collection,
recycling and transfer services. The
transaction remains subject to customary
closing conditions, including regulatory
approval and receipt of local municipal
consents. Closing is expected to occur in
the fourth quarter of 2008.
Waste Connections also announced
that it has entered into an agreement
with entities affiliated with LeMay to
acquire the remaining interests in Pierce
County Recycling, Composting and Disposal,
LLC (PCRCD), a provider of
solid waste disposal, transfer, recycling
and composting services, which is currently
a majority-owned subsidiary of
Waste Connections. Upon completion of
this acquisition, PCRCD will become a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Waste Connections.
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Very Good Shape!
Call 248-348-7774 Fax 248-348-7776
www.AcmeConstructionEquipment.com
MOBILE
SHEARS
Solid tires,
new gen-set
& magnet.
MODEL 6633
MODEL 6633
UNDER $80,000
50' reach - w/mag equipment - no magnet
HUGE OPPORTUNITY to advertise your
business! Call 877-777-0737 to find out
how to get your ad displayed on
www.AmericanRecycler.com today!
2003
VOLVO
EC 240
with Genesis
GMS 400R
rotating shear.
2002 VOLVO EC290 CRAWLER
with Genesis GXP 500 shear.
2006 GENESIS GXP700R rotating
shear lugged for Hitachi.
1996 KOMATSU PC220 CRAWLER
with LaBounty MSD 50 shear.
800-472-0453 Ivan
with
Cab Guards 2003
VOLVO
EC 240
with Genesis
GMS 400R
rotating shear.
Jacobs
800-549-0490
Call for parts & service!
accepted for
these products or lease option.
Section A Page 33
Miscellaneous
CUSTOM ENGINEERING, DESIGN, manufacturing
of heavy-duty machinery for
plant recycling operations and membrane
filtration systems to separate or concentrate
fluid components. Recapturing of fluid
components through membrane systems
can yield substantial savings, improve efficiencies,
reduce waste water costs or
reutilize by-products. Kemex, Inc., Membrane
Process & Control, Edgar, Wisconsin,
715-352-3206
Heat with Waste Oil
and SAVE!
The HEATWAVE® by Siebring
Kagi Heating Supplies & Mfg, Inc.
888-866-5244
www.kagiburner.com
EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
NEW & USED
Balers
Shears
Two Ram Balers
Portable & Mobile
Loggers & Shears
Shredders
LET US SELL YOUR
EQUIPMENT
Gus
813-282-8712
KAGI Multifuel
Waste Oil Burners...
simply the best,
most reliable waste
oil burner you can buy!
COPPER
CHOPPERS
Gunn
813-713-1210
Official distributor
TM
for trip-Tec
wire stripper
and McIntyre Shears.
716-646-4133
Fax: 716-646-4301
Mobile: 716-913-1600
john@callshaughnessy.com
USED MAGNETS:
38” & 45”
Crane magnets
Kohart Surplus & Salvage, Ken Kohart
419-399-4144 419-786-9243
Rigby hydraulic shears &
wire strippers, 10” to 26”
shears available. New, 26”
standard shear, only $13.5k!!
Four models of wire
strippers, vertical balers,
can densifiers and scrap
choppers. Call for parts.
Also: New can densifier, gas or electric, 11-20 lb. bales, $8,900.
New can baler, gas or electric, 150 lb. bales, $10,550. Used
Equipment: Lollini AL 5000 auto logger, $125,000, Colmar
403 scrap handler, $210,000, Aljon 400, $75,000, Cat 214
scrap handler, $58,000. More equipment available!
NF Metals business for sale in IL, call
REW, LLC: 701-837-5654
rew75@msn.com / www.scrapyardequip.com
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Section A Page 34 American Recycler, September 2008
To Place Your Ad
Call
877-777-0737
Fax
419-931-0740
Visit
AmericanRecycler.com
Miscellaneous
Alan Ross Machinery Corporation
NEW SCRAP LIFTING MAGNETS
High Performance, Low-priced Magnets
Sizes In-Stock: 27”, 36”, 42”, 48”, 50”, 58”, 65”
847-480-8900 • www.rossmach.com
RADIOACTIVE
Waste Disposal
Self-Illuminating Exit Signs
Smoke Detectors
Contaminated Pipe
Water Filtration Media
Contaminated Demolition Trash
“Hot” Equipment & Machinery
ADCO Services, Inc.
708-429-1660 / www.adcoservices.com
USED EQUIPMENT
FOR SALE
D & K # 2 ALLIGATOR SHEAR,
FOOT PEDAL CONTROL, $9500
CAT 214 RUBBER TIRED, WITH MAGNET, $58,000
SIERRA 2700 PORTABLE LOGGER BALER, $82,000
COPPER CHOPPING LINE, 50 HP, $15,000
AMERICAN 8043 AUTO TIE BALER, 150 HP,
CALL ON PRICE.
HOVDE RECYCLING EQUIPMENT
800-617-5219 or 480-699-2460
scrapequip.com
EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
Logemann 365-ton Shear with
Squeeze Box, $65,000
1993 Al-jon 400 Logger/Baler,
new motor and new cylinders,
$110,000
Barclay RotoShred Primary
Tire Shredder, factory-rebuilt
$165,000
1991 Komatsu PC300-LC with a
LaBounty MSD70, $115,000
1992 Koehring 6644-7 with a
2000 LaBounty MSD70 shear,
$125,000
1999 IPS Model CD965HS
Baler, excellent condition -
$65,000
Financing available on all new or
used equipment. Call us today for
a quote & application!
SEE MORE EQUIPMENT AND
PHOTOS AT
www.DADECAPITAL.com
800-823-9688
WE ACCEPT CHECKS, MONEY ORDERS, MASTERCARD, VISA and DISCOVER.
Classified
ADVERTISEMENTS
ALL CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE.
Miscellaneous
NEW 4-TINE ROTATING HYDRAULIC
GRAPPLES. Various sizes with rotation
and connector link. In stock. Call Ivan
Jacobs at 800-472-0453.
24” GAS TANK
STRAP CUTTER
27” SLIDE HAMMER
HANDLE GAS TANK
STRAP CUTTER
28” STEEL
CABLE
CUTTER
Blade
opens 1-1/8"
Scales
$119
3 lb. RAM
$155
$89
33” COPPER & ALUMINUM
CABLE
$155
CUTTER
Blade
opens
2-1/8"
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800-253-5646
CALL JOHN HARTY TOOLS
EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
#37 125 h.p. & #50 250 h.p.Cumberland grinders
200 h.p. Mitts & Merrill hog grinder, 20” x 36"
150 h.p. SSI shredder, RAM feed, 45" x 74"
(2) 36" Hydraulic guilotine cutters w/ 30" stroke
Perry Videx LLC 800-899-6224 x-3134
fgarcia@perryvidex.com www.perryvidex.com
NTEP APPROVED, LEGAL FOR TRADE
FLOOR SCALES: 4' x4' 5,000 lbs. $795,
5'x5' 5,000 lbs. $1,100. Scales come factory
calibrated with digital readout. Free shipping,
other sizes and capacities available.
Industrial Commercial Scales, LLC, 843-
278-0342, sales@icscale.com.
SCALE: Howe Richards in-ground,
60 ft., 160,000 lb. capacity, in good
condition. Located in NY, call
(631) 234-3000, x 234
Software
SALVAGE YARD SOFTWARE. Auto recyclers
yard management system for Windows
by Rossknecht Software. Obtain
extra revenue from scrap vehicles.
Includes vehicle parts breakdown, invoicing,
bar code tags, digital pictures,
reports, towing, sales history, bookkeeping.
New: Scrap purchase invoice and
prints checks; send your inventory to your
website. $750 complete, no monthly fees.
Visit www.rossknecht.com, e-mail
arsales@rossknecht.com. Free demo CD
303-884-5315.
Steel Buildings
Trucks & Trailers
Rates
Text Classifieds
$60 for up to 50 words.
Add $1 each additional word.
Display Classifieds
$65 per column inch depth,
2.5” width.
Trucks & Trailers
‘93 Volvo White
(above) w/Galbreath 60,000 lb. outside rail roll-off
hoist. CAT 3306 - 300 HP engine, 8LL w/OD, 19,000
lb. front, 46,000 lb. rear .............................. $25,000
2003 IHC 4300 w/new Swaploader 22,000 lb.
hooklift. DT466, Fuller 6 speed, 54" jib, handles 16'-
20' boxes. Comes w/one 20 yd box ........... $58,500
2000 IHC 4700 w/8,000 lb. Mini Roll Off. DT466,
6 Speed, 18,000 lb. GVW, comes w/one 12 yd
container. Very Nice ................................... $29,500
1992 Mack DM690 - 300-7 speed, 18/44, auto
tarper, 60,000 lb. hoist, very clean with nearly new
30 yd. container ........................................ $35,000
607-693-2064
www.hackerspackers.com
Wanted
TOP DOLLAR PAID! Wanted cast iron
counterweights, dead fork trucks with
counterweights, dead heavy breakable
machinery, motor blocks with transmissions,
sealed units and electric motors.
Prompt payment! Call Dave at 703-944-
7878, AABCON Metals.
WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: Top Dollar
Paid. Skid Steer Loaders, all brands—
Bobcat, New Holland, Case, Gehl, Mustang,
Thomas, etc. Any condition, all or
part. Also buying articulated loaders and
backhoes, any condition. Call 407-341-
2577. Ask for Allen or e- mail:
Roberts743@aol.com.
Antique Timber
& Boards
Yellow Pine
Douglas Fir
Tank Cypress
Tank Red Wood
What Its Worth, Inc.
512-328-8837
NEXT DEADLINE 9/18
CALL TODAY 877-777-0737

Toll-free 877-247-6629
Fax 478-252-9030
Wadley, Georgia
The Enviro-Rack
Auto Fluid Removal & Dismantling Station
The Enviro Rack is the
FIRST AND ONLY
self-contained fluid removal
system on the market.
Options:
Hook and rails suitable for rolloff
container system
Catalytic Converter Cutter
powered by air
Vacuum system to remove fluids
from master cylinder and power
steering pumps
Extra funnel with air drill increasing
operating speed for two man
operation.
We also sell Oil Dri by the pallet
or half pallet and oil absorbent
cloth sold by the pound.
Dimensions:
Height
Width
Length
Weight
7’ 4”
6’ 6”
16’ 0”
7,000 lbs.
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Enviro Rack Features:
We offer all steel tanks along with a grated catwalk for operator safety. Underneath the
catwalk is a 249 gallon catch pan and also a 360 gallon tank to catch any spills. No other
system on the market comes close to the Enviro Rack. Meet EPA and State level regulations
concerning fluid removal. The Enviro Rack is totally air operated. There are no
gasoline or electric motors that could create a spark. The
Enviro Rack is a safe system. Complete fluid removal in less
than 5 minutes.
Funnels are equipped with drills through the center to insure there
are no spills.
Antifreeze drain vat is piped into the holding tank
Antifreeze and motor oil storage tanks have a 180 gallon capacity
All tanks have gauge and gauge guard
Each unit is equipped with two fire extinguishers
Grated catwalk for floor safety
Adjustable car rack allows for any size vehicle and can be setup
tilted to the left or right for liquids to drain to one side of the tank
Air drills are used for speed and safety
249 gallon catch pan
360 gallon lower tank beneath catch pan
4 foldout catwalks for tire removal
50ft. retractable hose reel for air wrench
The upper rack serves as an air manifold
Fluid can be pumped out of tanks using air pressure and tanks
also have lifting eyes for easy handling
Iron Ax, Inc.
Website: www.ironax.com
E-mail: ironax@ironax.com

10 Foot Opening
Advanced Oil Recovery System
OVERBUILT CRUSHERS
MAXIMIZE YOUR
CRUSHING EFFICIENCY
State-of-the-Art Automation System
400-gallon Fuel Tank and Optional
Auxiliary Fuel Pump
Optional High-speed Oil Bypass System
Economical 4-cylinder and Electrical Models
800-548-6469
605-352-6469
www.OverBuilt.com
sales@overbuilt.com
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10 ft.
HIGH-SPEED BALER/LOGGER
Huron, South Dakota

A R Section
WASTE September
B
The number of major companies in
the solid waste industry is about to
shrink – whether number three, Republic
Services Inc., merges with number
two, Allied Waste Industries Inc., or
number one, Waste Management Inc.,
acquires Republic Services.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based
Republic Services, which announced
merger plans with Phoenix-based Allied
Waste in June, plans to complete its deal
in the fourth quarter, creating a company
with combined annual revenue of
approximately $9 billion.
Both boards have approved the allstock
merger, with Allied shareholders
set to receive 0.45 shares of Republic
Services’ stock for each share of Allied
Waste stock.
Republic Services will issue 198
million shares of stock to Allied Waste’s
shareholders and will end up owning 52
percent of the combined company.
Houston-based Waste Management
responded with a second, higher offer in
August for $37 a share in cash, representing
a premium of 32.6 percent premium
over the closing price of Republic
Services’ stock on July 11th, the day
before the first proposal.
Republic Services turned down both
offers and reaffirmed its intent to acquire
Allied Waste. “Although we are always
Company posts higher
revenue and increased
cash from operations
Waste Management, Inc. announced
financial results for its second quarter
ended June 30, 2008. Revenue for the
second quarter of 2008 was $3.49 billion
compared with $3.36 billion in the year
ago period, an increase of 3.9%. Net
income for the quarter was $318 million,
cognizant of our fiduciary duties,
Republic Services has not put itself up
for sale as a result of entering into a
strategic merger with Allied Waste,”
says Will Flower, vice president of communications
at Republic Services.
“Republic Services continues to
believe that the merger between Republic
Services and Allied Waste will create
significant value generating opportuni-
or $0.64 per diluted share, compared
with $338 million, or $0.64 per diluted
share, in the prior year period.
The Company noted several items
that impacted the results in the 2007 and
2008 second quarters. Results in the second
quarter of 2008 included a net $0.01
per diluted share benefit from income
tax items. Results in the second quarter
of 2007 included a combined benefit of
$0.08 per diluted share, consisting of
$0.05 per diluted share from income tax
items and $0.03 per diluted share from
divestitures of under-performing operations.
Excluding those items, earnings
would have been $311 million, or $0.63
per diluted share, in the second quarter
of 2008 compared with $296 million, or
$0.56 per diluted share, in the second
quarter of 2007. This is a 12.5% increase
in adjusted earnings per diluted share.
Income from operations as a percent
of revenue was 18.1% in the second
2008
American Recycler • NewsVoice of Salvage, Waste and Recycling
Republic Services to merge with Allied Waste
Republic Services
rejects Waste
Management’s
second proposal
by Brian R. Hook
ties, including significant cost saving
synergies, and is in the best interest of
stockholders.”
Republic Services enacted what is
commonly known a poison pill that
when triggered allows shareholders to
acquire additional shares below market
price, increasing the number of shares
outstanding and making a takeover prohibitively
expensive.
Unless Waste Management offers
more money to persuade Republic Services’
board to sell instead of merging
with Allied Waste, the newly combined
company would retain the name Republic
Services and be led by James O’Connor,
currently chairman and chief executive
officer at Republic Services. It
would be headquartered in Phoenix.
Continued on Page 3
Waste Management posts decline in second quarter earnings
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Waste Management would rather not see Republic’s fleet begin servicing Allied Waste customers.
PHOTO BY WILL FLOWER
quarter of 2008. This is a 20 basis point
improvement compared with the second
quarter of 2007, as adjusted for the items
noted above.
For the six months ended June 30,
2008, Waste Management reported operating
revenue of $6.76 billion, compared
with $6.55 billion for the same period
last year. Net income was $559 million,
or $1.13 per diluted share, for the six
months ended June 30, 2008, compared
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Section B Page 2 American Recycler, September 2008
Senate passes legislation
to clean up railway waste
In August, the Senate passed legislation
authored by United States Sen.
Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) to allow
states to regulate solid waste processing
facilities along rail lines. It was included
as part of larger rail safety legislation
also sponsored by Lautenberg.
The rail waste legislation is based
on Lautenberg’s Clean Railroads Act of
2007, which targets a loophole in federal
law that prohibits states from enforcing
environmental, health and safety regulations
at these rail sites. This loophole has
allowed railroad companies to pile trash,
largely consisting of construction debris,
at times two stories high, that can cause
serious health and environmental risks to
residents who live near these sites.
“Our backyards should not become
junkyards for industry. Our towns and
cities need to be able to protect their
PHOTO BY NIKHIL GANGAVANE | DREAMSTIME
Railway waste legislation aims to clean
up rail-based waste transfer stations.
Detroit not to
purchase Covanta
incinerator
Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
has announced that the city will not purchase
the waste-to-energy plant that has
processed approximately two-thirds of
the city’s waste since it was built in
1991.
This decision comes after last
month’s announcement that the city
would not renew its lease with the plant
operators, Covanta Energy. Instead, the
city, one of a few that does not currently
have a recycling program already in
place, plans to implement a pilot curbside
recycling program and send the rest
of the trash to landfills.
The city accounts for almost a third
of the trash that the incinerator burns,
and should the city stop sending trash,
the incinerator may be hard pressed to
remain in operation. But despite the
city’s plans, a contract provision dictates
that the plant owners, Energy Investors
funds of Boston, may require waste to be
incinerated if the plant can match or beat
local landfill bids.
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communities from fire hazards and pollution
caused by waste on rail sites,”
Sen. Lautenberg said.
Courts have ruled that the only
agency that can oversee rail waste sites
is the federal Surface Transportation
Board (STB); however, the Board does
not actively regulate them. No federal
safety or environmental standards exist
and the agency has no inspectors. In fact,
the Board has prevented any state from
regulating rail solid waste sites within
their borders, including 22 current or
proposed ones in New Jersey.
Lautenberg’s Clean Railroads Act of
2007, which was cosponsored by Sen.
Robert Menendez (D-NJ), would make
regulation of these sites permanent. The
House version of the rail waste legislation
was written by Rep. Frank Pallone
(D-NJ-06). Now, the House and Senate
must resolve their differences in the larger
rail safety bills before finalizing the
legislation and sending it to the President
for signature.
Also in August, the Senate Appropriations
Committee approved an extension
of a temporary measure authored by
Sen. Lautenberg to allow New Jersey to
begin to regulate some solid waste processing
facilities on railroads. The measure
was included in a one-year spending
bill for transportation and housing programs
and became effective in January,
but expires after September.
Sen. Lautenberg serves as Chairman
of the Senate Commerce Committee’s
subcommittee on Surface Transportation
and Merchant Marine Safety, Security,
and Infrastructure. The Senator’s subcommittee
has jurisdiction over railroad
issues and oversees the confirmation of
STB Commissioners.
Houston solar
project granted
$50,000 by EPA
The City of Houston has been
awarded $50,000 from the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to help
develop a solar energy plant on the site
of a former landfill.
Funding for the project is part of
more than $500,000 in grants announced
by the EPA for 16 Brownfields Sustainability
Pilots nationwide.
“EPA continues to use the brownfields
program to stimulate both environmental
and economic success,” said EPA
Regional Administrator Richard E.
Greene. “These pilots will demonstrate
best practices that can be used by other
communities across the country.”
The Houston project seeks to revitalize
a 300-acre former landfill site
located near downtown. Funding from
EPA will help with evaluating the various
environmental, engineering, and regulatory
issues involved in the project.
Assistance will also help conduct solar
energy production and financial feasibility
studies.
Puerto Rico SWMA takes steps to
close non-compliant landfills
Major progress has been made over
the past few years in improving the way
solid waste is managed in Puerto Rico,
according to United States Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Regional
Administrator, Alan J. Steinberg. Steinberg
spoke about several solid waste
achievements at a ceremony at the
Yolanda Guerrero Cultural Center. The
Agency praised the Puerto Rico Solid
Waste Management Authority (SWMA)
for developing a plan to handle municipal
garbage throughout the island and
announced it has secured an agreement
with the municipality of Toa Baja to
close its landfill.
EPA, the municipality of Toa Baja,
P.R., and Landfill Technologies, Inc.,
have agreed in principle to an administrative
order on consent that outlines a
plan to stop receiving waste at the main
part of the Toa Baja landfill by June
2010, with steps to close the landfill
completely to follow. This is the fifth
order issued by EPA requiring a landfill
in Puerto Rico to close since 2007; the
other landfills are in Vega Baja, Florida,
Aguadilla and Santa Isabel.
“I’m gratified that an agreement has
been reached to close the Toa Baja landfill
in an orderly and environmentally
protective way,” said Steinberg. “Closing
landfills that do not meet environmental
WM earnings
Continued from Page 1
with $576 million and $1.09 per diluted
share, respectively, for the same period
in 2007.
Acquisitions contributed 1.0% to
higher revenue in the quarter, while
divestitures caused a 0.8% decline in
revenue in the quarter.
standards in Puerto Rico has been an
EPA priority and we have received
invaluable support from the Puerto Rico
Solid Waste Management Authority on
this goal.”
The SWMA plan to handle solid
waste, the Dynamic Itinerary for Infrastructure
Projects, outlines priorities for
managing waste in the Commonwealth,
which has long been a challenge for its
government.
The 105-acre Toa Baja landfill was
created in 1994 when landfills operated
by the municipalities of Toa Baja and
Bayamón merged. Toa Baja has owned
the landfill since 2005, and Landfill
Technologies, Inc., manages the landfill.
SWMA estimated that in 2003 the Toa
Baja landfill accepted approximately
500,000 tons of waste, mostly household
and commercial solid waste.
Ongoing inspections of the landfill
found it lacking operating controls, sufficient
security, leachate and stormwater
discharge controls, and groundwater and
explosive gas monitoring systems. The
landfill also lacked a landfill gas control
and collection system.
The agreement to close the landfill
is governed by the Solid Waste Disposal
Act as amended by the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act, or RCRA.
PHOTO BY MICHAEL ZYSMAN | DREAMSTIME
Solid waste management practices in Puerto Rico are being overhauled. Non-compliant
landfills are to be closed in an environmentally sound manner.
Operating expenses were 62.5% of
revenue, up from 62.3% of revenue in
the same period in 2007. Excluding the
impacts of higher diesel fuel prices and
higher recycling commodity prices on
both operating expenses and revenue,
operating expenses were 61.0% of revenue
in the second quarter of 2008, or a
130 basis point improvement compared
with the prior year period.

American Recycler, September 2008
Republic Services second
quarter earnings decline
Republic Services, Inc. reported
that revenue for the three months ended
June 30, 2008 increased 2.4 percent to
$827.5 million compared to $808.4 million
for the same period in 2007.
The Company’s internal growth
during the period was 3.9 percent, with a
7.0 percent increase from price, partially
offset by a 3.1 percent decrease in volume.
Net income for the three months
ended June 30, 2008 was $62.3 million,
or $.34 per diluted share, compared to
$87.2 million, or $0.45 per diluted share,
last year.
The Company’s income before
income taxes for the three months ended
June 30, 2008 includes a $34.0 million
pre-tax charge ($21.8 million, or approximately
$.12 per diluted share, net of
tax) related to environmental conditions
at the Company’s Countywide Recycling
and Disposal Facility in Ohio. Net
income for the three months ended June
30, 2007 includes a tax benefit of $5.0
million, or approximately $0.03 per
diluted share, related to the effective
closing of the Internal Revenue Service’s
audits of the Company’s consolidated
tax returns for fiscal years 2001
through 2004.
Operating income for the three
months ended June 30, 2008 was $119.6
million, or 14.5 percent of revenue, compared
to $153.1 million, or 18.9 percent
of revenue, for the same period last year.
Excluding the $34.0 million charge to
operating expenses for the Company’s
Countywide Recycling and Disposal
Facility, operating income for the three
months ended June 30, 2008 would have
been $153.6 million, or 18.6 percent of
revenue.
Revenue for the six months ended
June 30, 2008 increased 2.1 percent to
$1,606.7 million from $1,574.0 million
Merger news
Continued from Page 1
Republic Services expects to generate
$150 million annually in synergies.
It has already put together a team to
identify possible savings. Republic
Services and Allied Waste have also
retained Deloitte Consulting LLP to
advise the companies on synergies.
There are a lot of overlapping businesses
between Republic Services and
Allied Waste that could be combined,
says Stewart Scharf, an analyst with
Standard & Poor’s in New York. To hit
the $150 million mark for the synergies,
he says it is important for Republic
Services to control costs while competing
for pricing and market share.
“Republic Services has good
growth potential,” he says, adding that
the combined company could become a
formidable, national competitor to Waste
Management.
Solid-waste companies usually
merge to gain either revenue growth or
market share, says Bruce Parker, president
and chief executive officer of the
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for the same period in 2007. Net income
for the six months ended June 30, 2008
was $138.4 million, or $0.75 per diluted
share, compared to $141.1 million, or
$0.72 per diluted share, for the same
period last year. The Company’s income
before income taxes for the six months
ended June 30, 2008 includes a $34.0
million pre-tax charge ($21.8 million, or
approximately $.12 per diluted share, net
of tax) related to environmental conditions
at the Company’s Countywide
Recycling and Disposal Facility. The
Company’s income before income taxes
for the six months ended June 30, 2007
includes a $22.0 million pre-tax charge
($13.5 million, or approximately $.07
per diluted share, net of tax) related to
environmental conditions at Countywide.
Operating income for the six
months ended June 30, 2008 was $261.8
million, or 16.3 percent of revenue, compared
to $267.8 million, or 17.0 percent
of revenue, for the same period last year.
James E. O’Connor, chairman and CEO
of Republic Services
National Solid Wastes Management
Association in Washington D.C. “Acquisitions
have always been a basic and
important part of the solid-waste industry’s
business profile,” Parker says.
The industry’s leader, Waste Management,
was created in a 1998 merger
of USA Waste with the old Waste Management.
Allied Waste moved from the
number three spot to the second largest
by merging with Browning Ferris Industries
in 1999. Republic Services was
spun out of Republic Industries in an
initial public offering in 1998.
Solid-waste companies today are
more focused on pricing discipline to
maximize return on invested capital for
shareholders, Parker says. This helps to
generate free cash flow, and increases
profit margins, what remains from sales
after a company pays out the cost of
goods sold.
Anti-trust issues are not expected to
be a problem with either proposed deal.
Both Republic Services and Waste Management
filed a Hart-Scott-Rodino notification
with the United States Department
of Justice, activating a review of
the proposed mergers.
More than five billion twelve-oz.
servings of beer – or about one in seven
beers brewed by Anheuser-Busch in the
United States – are expected to be
brewed using renewable fuel by the end
of 2009, thanks to efforts at the company’s
12 United States breweries. The
company’s breweries in Houston and
Fairfield, California, are currently
installing alternative energy technology
that will be operational by year end, and
as a result the company’s breweries will
run on more than 15 percent renewable
fuel.
The Houston brewery will use biogas
from a nearby landfill as part of an
alternative fuel plan that when combined
with the facility’s bio-energy recovery
system (BERS), is anticipated to provide
more than 70 percent of the brewery’s
fuel needs. The Fairfield brewery will
use BERS, and receive electricity from
solar panels being hosted on-site.
Anheuser-Busch has entered into an
agreement with Ameresco McCarty
Energy to purchase biogas from Allied
Waste Services’ McCarty Road Landfill
in Houston. Currently, some of the biogas
from the McCarty Road Landfill is
being captured, processed and sold to a
local utility, while the excess is flared.
Ameresco plans to capture some of that
unused biogas and transport it to the
Anheuser-Busch brewery through a sixmile
underground pipeline.
The Fairfield brewery will generate
15 percent of its fuel needs from a Bio-
Energy Recovery System (BERS) that is
currently under construction. BERS
technology turns nutrients in brewing
wastewater into renewable biogas that is
used to decrease the use of natural gas.
In addition, the Fairfield brewery has
entered into an agreement with SunEdison
to host a solar power plant on the
If regulators follow historical precedent
and focus on local instead of
national market share, either deal has a
high probability of clearing regulatory
hurdles, says Brian Butler, an analyst
with Friedman Billings Ramsey Group,
Inc. in Arlington, Virginia.
Depending on the amount of
divestitures required by regulators, a
merger might create more opportunities
for smaller haulers to acquire market
share, Butler says.
“The primary motivation behind
both of these deals is strategic,” Butler
says. “Under either scenario the combined
company will have increased control
over landfill and transfer stations,
which should reduce risk of a competitor
lowering prices.”
Cultural issues between merged
companies are also not expected to be a
problem with either proposed deal, says
Corey Greendale, an analyst with First
Analysis Securities Corp. in Chicago,
noting that a lot of industry executives
have moved back and forth between the
companies. “I think they are familiar
with each other’s culture,” Greendale
says.
Section B Page 3
Alternative fuels to power
Anheuser-Busch breweries
Anheuser-Busch is brewing green beer
in alternative fuel-powered breweries.
brewery’s property. The solar energy
system will generate the equivalent of
approximately three percent of the brewery’s
electricity needs and also generate
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
for businesses or individuals to purchase
to offset their use of fossil fuel energy
and greenhouse gas emissions. The 1.18
megawatt (DC) photovoltaic system will
be constructed during the late summer.
Once the Houston and Fairfield
projects are operational, 10 of Anheuser-
Busch’s 12 United States breweries will
be producing renewable fuel. Plans are
currently underway to construct the 11th
BERS in Williamsburg, Virginia in
2009. The company’s brewery in Fort
Collins, Colorado does not operate a
BERS but applies nutrient-rich brewery
wastewater to nearby land to grow crops
that can be turned into biofuel.
Anheuser-Busch is also exploring the
use of wind, solar, wood and landfill gas
at several other breweries.
In terms of finding synergies, however,
it’s never easy, Greendale says.
“Synergies are always a part of the
rationale for doing big acquisitions.
Sometimes it works out and sometimes
it doesn’t,” Greendale says, adding that
half of the expected $150 million in synergies
cited by Republic Services would
come from selling, general and administrative
expenses, which combines
salaries, commissions, and travel
expenses for executives, along with any
advertising costs and payroll expenses.
Neither transaction, whether
Republic Services merges with Allied
Waste or Waste Management acquires
Republic Services, has negative implications
for the solid-waste industry, says
Leone Young, an analyst with Citigroup
Inc. in New York.
“We retain our positive stance on
the group, given the positive industry
and pricing dynamics that have been
demonstrated,” Young writes in a note to
clients. “Over the near term, however, as
this process continues, we expect to see
continued, significant volatility in any
given name, depending on which punches
are thrown and by whom.”

Section B Page 4 American Recycler, September 2008
Second quarter
profits up 22%
at Allied Waste
Allied Waste Industries, Inc. reported
financial results for its second quarter and
six months ended June 30, 2008.
For the quarter, income from continuing
operations increased 22% to $111.4
million, or $0.25 per share, inclusive of net
charges of $0.02 per share, primarily associated
with merger-related costs. On an
adjusted basis, 2008 second quarter earnings
per share were $0.27, an increase of
29% over prior earnings of $0.21 per
share.
Total revenue for the second quarter
was a record $1.58 billion, an increase of
$35 million, or 2.2%, over $1.55 billion in
the second quarter 2007. Higher revenue
for the quarter benefited from a 6.9%
increase in average price, of which 280
basis points were associated with the company’s
fuel recovery fee, partially offset by
a 4.8% decrease in volumes. Lower volumes
for the quarter primarily reflect the
impact of U.S. economic conditions.
For the six-month period ended June
30, 2008, Allied Waste’s revenues were
$3.07 billion, as strong pricing drove a
$74.4 million increase over the prior year.
Operating income for the period increased
6.7% to $543.8 million, inclusive of $32.8
million of merger-related costs, losses
from divestitures and asset impairments.
Income from continuing operations was
$184.0 million for the first half of 2008,
compared with $125.3 million for the first
half of 2007. Diluted income from continuing
operations increased to $0.42 per
share, compared with $0.29 per share in
the prior year.
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Gasrec, Veolia and Iveco commence CBM trial
Gasrec, the UK’s first commercial
producer of liquid biomethane fuel, Veolia
Environmental Services, the UK’s
largest waste management company, and
full range commercial vehicle manufacturer
Iveco, announced the commencement
of a commercial trial of a liquid
gas fuel.
Veolia is testing compressed biomethane
(CBM), which is produced
from gas extracted from a landfill. The
natural gas-powered daily light commercial
vehicle in use for the trial is one of
the latest generation of natural gas-powered
vehicle manufactured by Iveco and
was supplied by Gasrec to Veolia Environmental
Services. Gasrec will provide
CBM for a trial lasting six months and
Waste Connections sees
second quarter increase
Waste Connections, Inc. announced
its results for the second quarter 2008.
Revenue totaled $267 million, a
10.8% increase over revenue of $241.1
million in the year ago period. Operating
income was $55.6 million versus $53.8
million in the second quarter of 2007.
Net income in the quarter was $26.2 million,
or $0.39 per share on a diluted
basis of 67.8 million shares.
For the six months ended June 30,
2008, revenue was $517.3 million, a
12.5% increase over revenue of $460
million in the year ago period. Operating
income was $106.4 million versus
$100.2 million for the same period in
2007. Net income for the six months
ended June 30, 2008, was $49.4 million,
or $0.73 per share on a diluted basis of
68.0 million shares.
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the performance of the fuel will be
measured against existing vehicles running
on Compressed Natural Gas
(CNG). The vehicle will be refueled at a
CBM refueling station installed by Gasrec
at Camden Council’s York Way
depot.
The project aims to demonstrate
that biomethane is a commercially competitive
and environmentally sound fuel
that can be directly substituted for natural
gas. The Government considers biomethane
to be the most sustainable biofuel
in terms of impact on resource
depletion in relation to alternatives such
as biodiesel and ethanol. Biomethane
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reduces CO2 emissions by up to 70% in
comparison to fossil diesel, with the
potential to significantly improve local
air quality. 1.1 tons of CBM is also
equivalent to 317 gallons of diesel,
which is sufficient to fuel a 49-ton heavy
goods vehicle for an entire week.
This new fuel is also designed to
bring an end to any issues associated
with the quality of natural gas available
in the UK and offers fleet operators a
serious and renewable alternative. Gasrec
supplies the fuel by tanker in liquid
form for bunkered storage – providing
an ideal solution for applications where
vehicles operate on a regular back-tobase
cycle.
Valhi announces WCS to begin
construction at Andrews County site
Valhi, Inc. announced that its wholly-owned
subsidiary, Waste Control Specialists,
LLC (WCS), has awarded a
three-year, $80 million contract to URS
to lead the design and construction of
new permanent disposal facilities and
infrastructure improvements at WCS’s
site in Andrews County, Texas.
These new facilities will enable
WCS to begin operations under its
license issued by the Texas Commission
on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in
May 2008 to dispose of radioactive
byproduct material and enhance its bulk
waste handling and disposal capabilities.
The URS contract contains three
separate elements:
The addition of a railroad loop and
facilities for unloading hazardous waste
materials from rail cars;
Construction of the byproduct disposal
landfill; and
Construction of a low-level
radioactive waste (LLRW) disposal and
fill facility upon the TCEQ’s approval of
WCS’s pending LLRW disposal license
application.
The WCS facility in Andrews County,
Texas is currently licensed for the
processing, storage and disposal of a
broad range of hazardous, toxic and
byproduct wastes and certain types of
low-level and mixed low-level radioactive
wastes.
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American Recycler, September 2008
Republic Services agrees to pay $1 million
Republic Services of Southern
Nevada, the current operator of the Sunrise
Mountain Landfill located in Clark
County, Nevada, has agreed to take necessary
steps to remedy the situation at
the site and to pay a $1 million civil fine
in order to resolve alleged violations of
the Clean Water Act, the Justice Department
and United States Environmental
Protection Agency announced.
The consent decree, filed in the
United States District Court in Las
Vegas, requires Republic Services of
Southern Nevada to implement extensive
stormwater controls, an armored engineered
cover, methane gas collection,
groundwater monitoring and long-term
operation and maintenance.
“Today’s settlement will minimize
the risk to Clark County residents from
polluted water runoff and hazardous
waste discharges from the Sunrise
Mountain landfill,” said Ronald J. Tenpas,
assistant attorney general for the
Justice Department’s Environment and
Natural Resources Division. “This settlement
reflects the federal government’s
commitment to protecting valuable natural
resources like Lake Mead and its
watershed.”
Honeywell helps
growing demand
for solar panels
Honeywell announced that it will
design and install the core process and
safety systems for a new plant under construction
by Hoku Materials, Inc., a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Hoku Scientific,
Inc. that is planned to produce polysilicon,
a key material needed to produce solar
panels. The solar power market is currently
estimated to be a $10 billion business,
with potential to expand to $30 billion by
2010. Serving as the main automation contractor
and sole automation equipment
supplier, Honeywell will engineer an integrated
solution that will help the Pocatello,
Idaho plant produce 3,500 tons of polysilicon
per year. The system will include distributed
control, batch management and
safety technology.
Jamestown
landfill to close
Sukut Construction, Inc. broke
ground in July on a $5.9 million project to
re-close the Jamestown Landfill.
This closure project is critical for
Tuolumne County as they face stiff fines
from the state of California if the problem
isn’t resolved by the end of the year.
Sukut, which has successfully completed
more than 50 major landfill projects,
including the closure of six sites, has
installed more than 40 million square feet
of landfill liner.
Sukut will be required to reconfigure
grades over 18 acres of the landfill, relocate
about 100,000 cubic yards of refuse,
and finally reconstruct the liner, drainage
layer and soil cover layers for the project.
The project will create a soil buttress on
one edge, and install surface drainage features
as well as new gas wells.
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The settlement will ensure effective
long-term control of the landfill, which
contains over 49 million cubic yards of
waste. The remedy, which is expected to
take roughly two years to build, will be
designed to withstand a 200-year storm
and is expected to cost over $36 million.
Upon completion, the remedy is estimated
to prevent the release of over 14 million
pounds of contaminants annually,
including stormwater pollutants,
methane gas and landfill leachate.
“Landfill operators must ensure that
effective safeguards are in place to protect
the environment and nearby communities,”
said Wayne Nastri, administrator
of the EPA’s Pacific Southwest
region. “With today’s agreement,
Republic is required to properly close
the landfill and ensure long-term waste
containment.”
Sunrise Landfill, a 440-acre closed
municipal solid waste landfill, is located
three miles outside of Las Vegas city
limits. The landfill cover failed during a
series of storms in September 1998,
sending waste into the Las Vegas Wash.
The landfill is located two miles above
the Las Vegas Wash, which discharges
directly into Lake Mead — a primary
drinking water resource for southern
Nevada, including the Las Vegas metro
area, as well as the lower Colorado
River, the Phoenix metro area and southern
California.
The landfill was operated on behalf
of the County by entities related to
Republic Services of Southern Nevada
from the 1950’s through 1993. Following
the landfill cover failure in 1998, the
EPA ordered Republic Dumpco, a company
related to Republic Services of
Southern Nevada, and the Clark County
Public Works Department to correct violations
of the federal clean water laws
and to immediately stabilize the site.
Sunrise Mountain Landfill is
unlined and contains more than 49-million
cubic yards of waste including:
municipal solid waste, medical waste,
sewage sludge, hydrocarbon-contaminated
soils, asbestos and construction
waste.
The proposed consent decree,
lodged in the U.S. District Court for the
District of Nevada, is subject to a 30-day
public comment period and approval by
the federal court.
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Oakleaf appoints
three to its board
of directors
Oakleaf has announced the appointment
of William T. Monahan to its board
of directors. Monahan has more than 35
years of experience in global business
development in a variety of industries
including telecommunications, manufacturing
and electronics.
Most recently, Monahan was chairman
and acting chief executive officer of
Novelis, Inc., a $6 billion dollar manufacturer
of aluminum rolled semi-finished
products. Monahan served on the
Novelis board of directors for many
years, guiding it though its recently
completed sale to India’s Hindalco
Industries.
They also announced the appointment
of Ronald Tysoe to its board.
Tysoe, who has more than 20 years
experience in the retail, finance and real
estate investment industries, is a principal
at The Hauser, Davis & Tysoe
Group, an investment group based in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Lawrence V. Jackson was the third
to be appointed to the board. Jackson has
been recognized for over three decades
for his proven leadership with some of
the nation’s leading Fortune 500 companies.
He is well versed in numerous
industry sectors including retail operations
and possesses vast experience in
management, operations, sales and procurement.
Prior to his appointment to Oakleaf’s
board of directors, Jackson was
president and chief executive officer of
Global Procurement at Wal-Mart Stores,
Inc., where he led strategic planning and
sustainability efforts — key initiatives
that garnered Wal-Mart unprecedented
success. Additionally, Jackson was
responsible for global purchasing for
Wal-Mart, successfully leading efforts of
purchasing offices in over 28 countries.
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Section B Page 6 American Recycler, September 2008
Horse waste to turn green via
new technology from MaxWest
MaxWest Environmental Systems,
Inc. and Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’
and Owners’ Association (FTBOA) have
announced a partnership to convert horse
waste into renewable energy.
Ocala/Marion County is home to 431
thoroughbred breeding and training farms
covering more than 70,000 acres of Florida’s
pastures. The disposal of horse/stall
waste is a problem that increasingly draws
the attention of state and local government
agencies. Currently, individual farms are
responsible for the disposal of stall waste.
MaxWest’s gasification technology will
provide FTBOA members with a convenient,
environmentally friendly method of
horse manure disposal.
Horse waste will be trucked from
farms, training centers, sales companies,
and other equine facilities across Marion
County to a site owned and managed by
the partnership. The manure will be mixed
with wood waste and then gasified in
MaxWest’s integrated gasification system
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ACROSS
1. ___ scrap, this kind of scrap has reached a record level of
$600 per ton
5. Bottle ___, law requiring deposits on beverage containers
8. Gay___ Container, the trade name for a large, reusable
container used for shipping materials
10. Car or man followers
11. Crude substance
12. Data
14. Asset evaluation worksheet, for short
15. Recyclable can type
16. Long ___, 2,240 pounds
18. Feminine ending
19. Water-well feature
21. Machine that flattens aluminum cans
25. The average American uses 650 ___ of paper per year
26. Sopranos group
29. Nurse, abbr.
30. Thin slat of wood
32. Not well
33. RFID part
35. Paper that has been discarded in the manufacturing process
in the paper mill
37. Trailblazer?
39. Gross!
40. Shakespeare's you
41. Arctic transportation
42. Chargers' home, for short
43. Life energy in Chinese philosophy
44. Power plant that uses municipal solid waste as a part of its
fuel supply
45. Used beverage cans
46. Light switch option
47. Poet, Cummings
48. Common plastic resin used in beverage containers
50. Switching to this type of television may cause an increase in
electronic recyclers' workload
53. Record onto CD
56. The girl from Ipanema came from here
58. Cut off
60. Oakland team
61. Nature's way of recycling
64. Popular Nevada city, for short
65. Adam's apple girl
67. Gas-to___, project that converts gas from landfills into
electricity
68. Concentrated load capacity
69. Water wasting faucet problem
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1. Single ___ recycling, aka fully commingled recycling
2. Tellurium symbol
3. ___tomer, material which can be stretched but will return to its
original length
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to produce renewable thermal energy,
which will then be used to produce
“green” electric power for sale to the
power grid.
The facility is expected to convert
upwards of 100,000 tons of stall and wood
waste per year. The process should produce
approximately 7.2 megawatts of
exportable energy daily, enough to power
over 1,400 homes.
Most recently, MaxWest has focused
its technology on working with municipalities
to convert biosolids to green energy at
wastewater treatment plants and is presently
talking with Florida dairies and cattle
feedlots across the United States. The
FTBOA project is its first expansion into
working with horse waste.
The MaxWest system works with
wood, crop wastes, and other forms of carbon-based
wastes such as plastic.
MaxWest systems are presently operating
at facilities converting wood, cow, chicken,
and mixed wastes.
4. LDPE part
5. Deli order, abbr.
6. Barrier designed to prevent the
leaching of contents from a landfill
7. Lane, abbr.
8. Closed-___ recycling, recycling
materials into their original form
9. Garbage container
13. Length measurement, abbr.
17. __ and void
20. Business degree
21. Swindle
22. Hollywood's home
23. Prepare a present
24. Front ___ loader, commercial solid
waste collection truck type
27. Was on TV
28. ___ Control Law, local ordinance
controlling the collection of municipal
solid waste
31. Pressure measure
34. Engine purr
36. Looking at
37. One of the most commonly recycled
plastics
38. Fire remains
Veolia Environmental Services to
recover ethanol from waste
Veolia ES Technical Solutions,
LLC, the hazardous waste division of
Veolia Environmental Services, is beginning
ethanol recovery services at its
newly acquired Medina, Ohio facility.
“Very little has been done in
the area of recovering
ethanol from waste.”
-Phillippe Martin
Waste materials from industrial
manufacturing and consumer goods that
contain ethanol will undergo a process to
recover it for reuse. Veolia ES Technical
Solutions will also provide secure packing
destruction for off-specification
alcoholic beverages in conjunction with
the ethanol recovery process. The recovered
ethanol can then be used as fuel to
replace or supplement gasoline.
“This is yet another step in our
growing list of recycling technologies
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41. Take without asking
42. ___ reduction, an action to
reduce waste at the point of
generation
43. Carp
44. Damp
49. To be announced...
50. Round tent type
51. "The ___, bitsy spider..."
52. Hang around
54. PC operator
55. The legal-for-trade certification
program for weighing devices
57. Positive or negative particle
59. Plastic used for plumbing pipes
62. Public relations, for short
63. Football position, abbr.
66. Roman 6
that include organic and inorganic
processes to recover mercury, metals,
and solvents,” explained Philippe Martin,
president and CEO of Veolia ES
Technical Solutions.
The operation will support ethanol
production from industrial, non-alcoholic
and alcoholic wastes. Waste products
are sent through equipment that
destroys or recycles the packaging and
separates out the liquids. These liquids
are transferred to a recovery process that
removes most water and contaminants.
The final ethanol product is then subject
to a rigorous specifications review, and
when met, will be sold as fuel.
Veolia ES Technical Solutions
process is relatively new in the area of
recovering and producing ethanol.
“Most ethanol plants in the United
States use food products, mainly corn, to
produce ethanol, but very little has been
done in the area of recovering ethanol
from waste,” said Martin.
Industries that will benefit from
Veolia ES Technical Solutions waste-toethanol
service include food and beverage
distributors, especially breweries
and wineries, biotechnology, pharmaceutical,
chemical and consumer goods
manufacturers.
Stericycle
reports results
for second
quarter 2008
Stericycle, Inc. reported financial
results for the second quarter of 2008.
Revenues for the quarter ended June 30,
2008 were $277.8 million, up 19.3%
from $232.8 million in the same quarter
last year.
Acquisitions less than 12 months
old contributed approximately $18.0
million to the growth in revenues for the
quarter. Gross profit was $123.2 million,
up 17.8% from $104.5 million in the
same quarter last year. Gross profit as a
percent of revenue was 44.3% versus
44.9% in the second quarter of 2007.
Net income for the second quarter
of 2008 was $38.7 million or $0.44 per
diluted share compared with net income
of $32.0 million or $0.36 per diluted
share for the second quarter of 2007.
For the six months ended June 30,
2008, revenues were $532.6 million, up
20.0% from $443.9 million in the same
period last year. Gross profit was $236.7
million, up 19.1% from $198.8 million
in the same period last year. Earnings
per diluted share increased 16.2% to
$0.79 from $0.68 per diluted share in the
same period last year. Earnings per diluted
share for the six months ended 2008
were negatively impacted by $0.04 per
diluted share related to the arbitration
settlement recorded in the first quarter of
2008.
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American Recycler, September 2008
Fulcrum Bioenergy to build
MSW-to-ethanol plant
Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. announced
that it is advancing next-generation
ethanol production with its plans to build
one of the first commercial-scale production
facilities for converting municipal
solid waste to ethanol. The plant will
process municipal solid waste, creating a
low-cost, reliable and environmentallyclean
renewable transportation fuel.
When it begins operations in early
2010, the Sierra BioFuels plant is
expected to produce approximately 10.5
million gallons of ethanol per year, and
to process nearly 90,000 tons per year of
municipal solid waste that would otherwise
have been disposed of in landfills.
Fulcrum BioEnergy will design, finance,
construct, own and operate the plant,
which will be located in Storey County,
Nevada. This late-stage development
project is expected to cost approximately
$120 million.
The Sierra BioFuels plant is the first
of several projects that Fulcrum is currently
developing across the country.
The plant will utilize gasification technology
licensed from Integrated Environmental
Technologies and a licensed
proprietary catalytic technology for converting
synthesis gas to ethanol jointly
developed by Nipawin Biomass Ethanol,
New Generation Co-operative Ltd., and
Saskatchewan Research Council.
Fulcrum BioEnergy is collaborating
with waste hauling and disposal companies
around the country to revolutionize
the disposal of solid waste. Because Fulcrum
converts post-recycled organic
waste, it adds another layer of recovery
and recycling to conventional processes.
Fulcrum’s facilities therefore do not
compete or interfere with communities’
established recycling programs.
Five Puerto Rico municipalities
receive a brownfields boost
Five municipalities in Puerto Rico
will get a boost in their efforts to clean
up and redevelop contaminated properties,
thanks to a total of $2 million in
grants announced by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA). The funding will be used by the
local governments to identify and assess
sites that can be cleaned up and redeveloped.
Properties such as these where
reuse, redevelopment or expansion is
hindered by pollution or potential pollution
are known as brownfields. EPA
Regional Administrator Alan J. Steinberg
presented the grants to representatives
of the five municipalities at a ceremony
at the Agency’s Caribbean Environmental
Protection Division office in
San Juan.
Properties such as these
where reuse, redevelopment
or expansion is hindered by
pollution or potential pollution
are known as brownfields.
The following municipalities each
received $400,000 in the form of one
$200,000 grant to assess sites with haz-
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ardous substances and one $200,000
grant to assess sites with petroleum:
The Municipality of Caguas
The Municipality of Canovanas
The Municipality of Salinas
The Municipality of Toa Baja
The Municipality of Yauco
The brownfields program encourages
redevelopment of America’s estimated
450,000 abandoned and contaminated
sites. Nationally, 194 assessment
grants totaling $38.7 million were issued
this year and will be used to conduct site
assessment and planning for eventual
clean up at one or more brownfields sites
or as part of a community-wide effort.
EPA also provides grants for clean up of
hazardous substances, revolving loan
funds and job training.
In addition to industrial and commercial
redevelopment, brownfields
grants have helped convert industrial
properties to parks, landfills to golf
courses, rail corridors to recreational
trails and gas stations to housing. As of
January 31, 2008, EPA’s brownfields
assistance has leveraged more than
$10.4 billion in clean up and redevelopment
funding and 47,201 jobs in clean
up, construction and redevelopment.
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